Quotes About Justice

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

Equality for women is progress for all.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.

Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Woman's cause is one and universal.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn't make it right.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.