Quotes About Justice

No form of gender equity can ever truly be achieved until we first work to empower femininity itself.

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

Realizing that inequality is socially constructed empowers us to be agents of change.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonour, nor violence indicate possession.

Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

La moral es una autoridad superior al derecho.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

What magic, what alchemical changes, unexpected, unknown as yet to man, can produce a state of freedom in a society in which it is not possible for one of us to be free until we are all free?

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

We only live once and every day spent living your principles is a day at liberty. It is clear that history is on our side.

Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.

We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?

It's so lovely that even in prison, men who aren't touchy-feely have to be stopped from beating up rapists -- not just child molesters, but rapists of grown women. It's a shame that educated middle-class leftwing men can't take feminism on board so effectively.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

disability rights and to demand full access. Ed Roberts and others at the University of California Berkeley in the 1960s forced the university to admit them, to provide access to classes and other activities, and to provide the support

Now they are questioning [Evans's] credibility, and the credibility of the detective who was investigating the case. When you're the D.A., you'd better be dotting your I's and crossing your T's. You don't want something like this coming."

Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him to do so in the name of his practical attributes. Formerly man was divine because he had been able to acquire the concept of justice, the idea of law, the sense of God; today he is divine because he has been able to create equipment which makes him the master of matter.

Those who lead men to the conquest of material things have no need of justice and charity.

I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.