Justice Quotes

"Those people over there say women should be helped everywhere; I want rights!"

"I want to tell the world what has been done to me and my people."

"I want the colored people to get their rights and nothing but their rights."

"I want to see all people treated with dignity and respect."

"I have seen the cruelty of slavery and I want it to end."

"The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty."

"A society of order and laws is not despotism when the law is reasonable and the order is just."

"Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot."

"Justice requires not only laws but also the will to enforce them impartially."

"I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

"I have no occasion to be ashamed of the cause in which I am engaged."

"Each individual has a responsibility to oppose injustice in their lifetime."

"The abolitionist cause is the cause of humanity itself."

"The moral arc of the universe bends toward justice."

"The price of justice is eternal vigilance and unwavering commitment."

"No earthly tribunal can judge the righteousness of my cause."

"The struggle for human rights knows no compromise."

"Slavery is the next thing to hell."

"I ask no favors for my race but what is right."

"The greatest evil this nation ever tolerated was the buying and selling of human souls."

"Every slave-holder or slaveholder's sympathizer is my enemy."

"I have seen the lash upon the back of human beings."

"I have seen mothers torn from their children."

"Resolved, that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise."

"Woman's degradation is inseparable from man's degradation."

"Woman must have justice before she can have peace."

"The law that oppresses woman is the law of man, made by man."

"Woman's equality is not a favor to be granted, but a right to be claimed."

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others."

"The institution of slavery is a moral depravity."