Quotes About Injustice

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time