Quotes About Social justice

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn't make it right.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

Until the age of 19, I lived in the Communist Party commune where eight families lived in 180 to 200 square feet of space. In that world, social justice was a given. We grew up valuing that.

Without justice you won't have stability.

I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

Just by saying it is wrong to be racist and saying we are going to arrest people and kick them out of stadiums does not stop them being racist.

I have a wonderful, diverse, and young staff at the AAPF who pretty much work around the clock trying to figure out how we promote the idea that social justice requires us to be intersectional in our thinking and in our scope of vision.

One of my staff members told me that after the release of the film, whenever a custodial death is reported, people say - 'Another 'Visaranai.' This is the kind of change that I am looking for; it should hit you hard.

My primary goal is to eradicate poverty; I believe it is immoral and a stain on our society. And so when I despair or get angry, I take the time to think about how I can best achieve that goal - and then I get to work.