Quotes About Injustice

I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.

Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.