Social Justice Vocab
To show or express strong disagreement with or disapproval of something
What is to protest?
A word that begins with the prefix "dis".
What is _________?
disrespectful
What is not being respectful?
The famous basketball player who got cut from his high school basketball team. He once said, "I've failed over and over in my life and that is why I succeed".
Who is Michael Jordan?
What is similar about all contagious diseases?
What is they can be spread from person to person?
To refuse to work until your employer does what you want.
What is to strike?
A word that begins with the prefix "im".
What is ___________?
impolite
What is not polite?
A famous boxer who fought for civil rights and refused to fight in the Vietnam War.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Contrast social distancing and quarantine.
What is social distancing is when you stay at least 6 feet away from other person and quarantine is when you stay home to prevent other people from getting sick.
To refuse to buy, use, or participate in something as a way of protesting.
What is to boycott?
A word that begins with the prefix "ir".
What is __________?
misunderstand
What is when you understand something or someone wrongly?
A civil rights activist who fought for the rights of farm workers.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
What is an epidemic is when a contagious disease spreads in one place and a pandemic is when it spreads throughout the world.
Unfair treatment of people based on their identity.
What is discrimination?
A word that begins with the prefix "mis".
What is ___________?
irrational
What is not rational?
A young woman who fought for women's right to education after being shot in her home country of Pakistan.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
Compare quarantine and isolation.
What is quarantine and isolation are similar because they both involve staying home to keep other people safe.
The practice of refusing to respond to anything with violence.
What is nonviolence?
A word that begins with the prefix "a".
What is ________?
defund
The first Latina Supreme Court Judge in the US.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
Contrast symptomatic and asymptomatic.
What is symptomatic means that you have symptoms while asymptomatic means that you don't have symptoms.