Quotes About Justice

We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176

How long before both women and men are allowed to see self-respecting rebellion as a lifelong possibility?

For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.

Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.

As Dr. King once said, "Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

A quote is the essence of a story. We all need stories to convey ideas, justice, anger, humanity, hope, laughter, learning, and whatever makes us understand or feel understood

Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?

White people should have sued for being culturally deprived in a white ghetto. When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.

The less gender-polarized the culture, the lower the degree of violence and the greater the degree of democracy.

The dry tinder of inequality was everywhere, just waiting to be set on fire.

To be just, a law has to be flexible.

As Dr. King once said, "Justice too long delayed is justice denied." If

one major way of ending the feminization of poverty is to attack the masculinization of wealth.

Looking at Barbados and Australia as relatively positive examples, one societal hallmark of self-esteem seems to be an ability to both give and demand fairness, an expectation that extends from the personal to the political.

Six years after that, I went to the White House with Wilma and watched as President Clinton and Hillary Clinton presented her with a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. As she stood there, strong, kind, and not at all intimidated by another chief of state, I was not the only one in the audience who thought, She could be president. I also thought, In a just country, she would be.

The personal is political. When

campuses not only help create social justice movements, they need them.

to making revolution, not just dinner.

not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day.

She was a civil rights advocate. He was a feminist.

Carolyn Heilbrun's

The accusation that feminism is bad for the family leads to understanding that it's bad for the patriarchal variety, but good for democratic families that are the basis of democracy.