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Quotes About Justice

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
~ Nellie L. McClung
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.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
~ Samuel Johnson
I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
~ Zainab Salbi
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.
~ Mary Daly
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
~ Samantha Power
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.
~ Ibtihaj Muhammad
I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.
~ Norma McCorvey
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.
~ Holly Near
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
~ Viola Davis
You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.
~ Julian Bond
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
~ Robin Morgan
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
~ Ida B. Wells
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
~ Gloria Steinem
Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
~ Fanny Fern
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
~ Hillary Clinton
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out
~ Lillian Wald
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
~ Lucy Stone
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
~ Sojourner Truth
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
~ Cato the Elder
The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.
~ Helen LaKelly Hunt
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
~ Victoria Woodhull