Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"Women's rights are human rights, not special privileges."Betty Friedan
"The fight for equality is ultimately a fight for humanity itself."Betty Friedan
"The right to work is as fundamental as the right to education."Betty Friedan
"The struggle for equality is a struggle for the soul of civilization."Betty Friedan
"The fight for women's equality is far from over and ever more urgent."Betty Friedan
"A woman deserves to be heard, respected, and taken seriously."Betty Friedan
"True equality requires dismantling the nuclear family as we know it."Shulamith Firestone
"Gender is a class system that predates all other forms of oppression."Shulamith Firestone
"Feminism without economic revolution is merely cosmetic change."Shulamith Firestone
"Patriarchal marriage is legalized slavery disguised as romantic partnership."Shulamith Firestone
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."Audre Lorde
"We cannot afford to be silent."Audre Lorde
"Racism, the belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance."Audre Lorde
"We cannot simply attend to the obvious oppressions."Audre Lorde
"The most important thing is that we continue to question, to seek understanding, and to demand justice."Barbara Smith
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Barbara Smith
"Justice is the foundation of society."Barbara Smith
"If women were expected to do the same work as men, we only do it for half the pay."Gloria Steinem
"Feminism's biggest rift has been between white and Black women, largely because white women refused to acknowledge differences of color and class."Gloria Steinem
"Gender equality must be achieved not in a thousand years but now, in this century."Gloria Steinem
"Justice requires us to see the humanity in those we oppose"bell hooks
"The unpaid labor of homemaking should not be undervalued or invisible."Betty Friedan
"The ability to contribute beyond the home is a human right."Betty Friedan
"Women's contributions to society extend far beyond traditional roles."Betty Friedan
"Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they receive from the labor of Black and white workers."Angela Davis
"The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because the abandoned itself will be unjust."Angela Davis
"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other."Angela Davis
"If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night."Angela Davis
"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."Angela Davis
"The problem of racism cannot be reduced to the private interactions between individuals."Angela Davis