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Quotes About Injustice

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated
~ Mukhtar Ma'i
There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?
~ Paul Feig
Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.
~ Phyllis Bottome
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
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
~ Romola Garai
Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together...
~ Rose McGowan
Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.
~ Roxane Gay
A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.
~ Sarah Stillman
It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.
~ Sonia Johnson
So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.
~ Susan B. Anthony
For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?
~ Tenzin Palmo
It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.
~ Valerie Jarrett
Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
~ Warren Farrell
I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
~ Zainab Salbi
Neglect of women is the major cause for the society's downfall.
~ Abhijit Naskar
To be a woman is to be a fighter! A woman has to be strong and has to fight every moment of her life - against a society that believes in patriarchy, chauvinism and male privilege!
~ Avijeet Das
Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.
~ Randi Pink, Into White
Gender Quotes are social disease.
~ nugas
Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape? Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice
~ Dennis R. Miller
The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin