Quotes About Injustice

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

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.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

Women all live a double standard.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

I feel like women, especially in music, aren't really given as much respect as men. Sexism really exists.

I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.

Men feared witches and burned women.

A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'

I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or that such attention suggests that black men and women feel sorry for themselves.

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.