Quotes About Justice

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Let's reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

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

The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

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

Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

It is important for women to do something about what they see.

A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.