Essay On Social Justice

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Social Justice People have the right to not be forced to do something they don’t agree with, for example, women have the right to choose what happens with their body but in some cases it is not equal for all women. Here in the United States fortunately women have the power to decide whether to abort or not. But in china and India they have different beliefs and traditions; therefore women have no such thing as rights they are not able to express their thoughts, this is discrimination against females. Just as Richard Wright states on the article “The library card”, “hiding my thoughts and feelings from them”. The speaker of the passage did not have the right to go in the library do to his ethnicity; this was not social justice towards him. What is social justice? (Long, Tice, & Morrison) states “Social justice is based on compassion for people, and can be defined as the goal of all persons having full and equitable access to opportunities and services in a society.” There for the general concept of social justice incorporates the …show more content…

This is important because we can help people get a better view of how indifferent cultures are around the world. Women here in the United States have the power to be heard and respected and make their decision whether to abort or not and even then many of them still choose to abort, but in china and India they are mistreated and forced to abort, leaving them no choice. Women in India and china live in an unfair culture where the women have had to carry on with the traditions, without anyone feeling mercy for them if people could help make a change in the world, societies will start to see things differently and approve to stop making abortion legal. Religion can be helpful to stop making so many injustices in the world if people believe that they are not God to choose someone’s

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