Quotes About Justice

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

I am always on the women's side.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.