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Quotes About Social justice

Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.
~ Mary Livermore
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
~ Lillian Hellman
men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.
~ Pink
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
~ Stokely Carmichael
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
~ Ernestine Rose
It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.
~ Noam Chomsky
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.
~ Clemence Dane
People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.
~ Stanley Nelson Jr.
Men and women are not equal.
~ Mel Gibson
There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!
~ Susan B. Anthony
Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.
~ Desmond Tutu
We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
~ Gail Collins
It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.
~ George Carlin
I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.
~ Helen H. Gardener
Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.
~ Henry Rollins
Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.
~ Hillary Clinton
In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.
~ Hillary Clinton
The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
~ Isabel Allende
Women do not get raped because they weren't careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.
~ Jessica Valenti