Quotes About Justice

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

Of course I'm a feminist…if you're not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you're a fascist.

Women do not get raped because they weren't careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in.

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.

Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination.

Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists are quite capable of fighting multiple battles at once!

The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.

For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That's not a concept you can really shoot down.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.