Justice Quotes

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."

"I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary."

"What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Your celebration is a sham."

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, there slavery continues."

"I assert that woman, as well as man, is entitled to all the political rights which the word suffrage implyingly confers."

"The Negro should be judged like other men, by his acts."

"The true relation between master and slave has been violated."

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

"That little man in black there, he say women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wan't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman!"

"We do as much work as a man, we eat as much when we can get it, we are as strong, some of us, but we do not have as many rights."

"I am a mover and a shaker. I do not sit still while injustice reigns."

"God has given me a voice, and I will use it to cry out for the voiceless."

"I speak for those who have no voice, and I will never stop speaking."

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

"In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act as though they believe that the disadvantages of a man due to his colour begin and end with him, they are unjust."

"We do not want sympathy, but we want justice."

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line."

"How strange a thing is prejudice."

"I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham."

"The Negro woman is the most neglected factor in American civilization."

"Until we have learned to regard the black man as our equal, we cannot call ourselves civilized."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"I declare that woman has been the slave of man."

"I declare that the true republic is such wherein there is no man who has authority to compel another to be his slave."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"I declare that woman has been the slave of man."

"We are not fighting for integration, we are fighting for recognition as human beings"

"Anytime you live in a society where they treat you second class, that's an illegitimate society"

"The most disrespected woman in America is the black woman"

"It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of justice"