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Quotes About Justice

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Women must have economic and social equality with men.
~ Margaret Sanger
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.
~ Marisa Tomei
If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.
~ Mark Shields
Women are much more honourable than men.
~ Martin Firrell
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.
~ Mary Gaitskill
We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.
~ Melissa Farley
Women in my world are respected as much as men.
~ Michael Arrington
I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.
~ Michelle Bachelet
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
~ Michelle Bachelet
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.
~ Moby
There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
~ Nancy Astor
I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.
~ Natalie Portman
Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.
~ Patty Murray
In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.
~ Pauley Perrette
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person - men and women - this is already the first terrorism!
~ Pope Francis
We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.
~ Pope Francis
He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.
~ Rachel Weisz