M4 Unit 12

What is Social Justice?

What is Social Justice? Social justice is the equal distribution of resources and opportunities, in which

outside factors that categorize people are irrelevant. In its early days, the term social justice specifically

targeted poverty and the need for an equal distribution of resources. Today, the term has acquired a

broader and more detailed definition (including issues of segregation) that accounts for specific modes

of moral treatment.

The blueprint for achieving social justice is often structured by governmental implementation of

laws/rights that provide equal distribution of resources and opportunities, which in effect protects

human dignity. If a government supports inequality with oppressive laws, then it is up to a non-

government coalition to stimulate the change of such laws in a non-violent manner.

Some issues championed by social justice warriors include but are not limited to:

• The Environment/Global Warming/Climate Change

• Women’s Rights/Gender Equality

• LGBTQ rights and protections

• Children’s rights and protections

• Mental and physically challenged rights and protections

• Racial Discrimination

• National Security

• Public Education

• Voter’s Rights

Source: "What is Social Justice?" The Pachamama Alliance - Bridging the Indigenous and Modern Worlds.

Accessed December 01, 2017. https://www.pachamama.org/.