Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

27299 quotes

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"To be a woman is to be subordinate unless we change the system."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Pornography is the theory; rape is the practice."
Andrea Dworkin
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"We are taught to apologize for taking up space."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Indifference is complicity."
Andrea Dworkin
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"We are worthy of the same freedoms we grant to others."
Andrea Dworkin
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"The catastrophe of male chauvinist assumption is that women are people."
Germaine Greer
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"No sex without representation."
Germaine Greer
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"The female body is treated like public property."
Germaine Greer
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"The most important thing is to recognize that race, gender, and class don't exist in isolation—they intersect and create unique experiences of discrimination."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"When we focus only on the experiences of the most privileged among us, we erase the struggles of those facing multiple forms of marginalization."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Single-issue activism, while important, often leaves behind those experiencing compounded discrimination."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"The fight for justice cannot be fragmented if we hope to truly liberate anyone."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Privilege is not just about individual benefit—it's about systemic advantage built into institutions."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"The conversation about rights must include those whose rights are most threatened."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Intersectionality reveals that progress for some is not progress for all."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Justice delayed for some is justice denied for all of us who seek true liberation."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Every policy that ignores intersectionality is a policy that will fail those most in need of protection."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Intersectionality teaches us that to truly help anyone, we must help everyone at the intersections."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"When we center those at the margins, we create frameworks that work better for everyone."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Intersectionality is the practice of refusing to sacrifice anyone's liberation for the sake of partial progress."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Justice that does not account for how oppression compounds is justice that serves only some of us."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Civil disobedience is a cornerstone of justice when laws themselves are unjust."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Justice delayed is a betrayal of those who suffer."
Andrea Dworkin
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"If you say, I'm for equal pay for equal work, you're for feminism."
Gloria Steinem
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"A woman who chooses to have a career is called selfish."
Gloria Steinem
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"Silence is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of injustice."
Gloria Steinem
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"Feminism is the belief that women are human beings."
Gloria Steinem
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"Racism, economic oppression, and the destruction of nature are connected."
Gloria Steinem
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"Solidarity is a practice, not a feeling"
bell hooks