Justice Quotes

"I believe it is the duty of the Negro, as the greatest problem of America, to refuse to accept discrimination."

"We should not accept crumbs when we deserve the whole loaf."

"The souls of Black folk deserve respect and dignity."

"The Negro has every right to demand full and equal participation in society."

"The Negro must demand nothing less than equality before the law."

"The true course is to recognize that the object of our Constitution was to establish justice."

"I declare women ought to be paid equally for equal work."

"The true course is to make woman the equal of man in the eyes of the law."

"My heart tells me that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"The true course is to make woman's rights the cornerstone of justice."

"I declare women are not asking for charity, but for justice."

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

"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him."

"We are here, not because we want to make trouble, but because we are compelled by the injustice of the present situation to do so."

"Our demand is simple: that women be given human rights and human treatment."

"The condition of our sex is so deplorable that it is our duty to break the law in order to call attention to the reasons why we're advocating its change."

"We are here not because we love agitation, but because we love justice."

"Nothing is so dangerous to the survival of society as the oppression of those who have no voice."

"I became what the law made me."

"If a man burns down my house, I have a right to set fire to his."

"Society recognizes the achievements of men and exalts them; it ignores the achievements of women."

"I assert the right to rebel when the law treats me unjustly."

"I refuse to accept that half the population should be subjected to the other half."

"We are not rebels by nature; we are rebels by necessity."

"The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman."

"Anytime you live in a society in which certain facilities are exclusively for white people, you are living in a state of slavery."

"The Black man in America is the most disrespected human being that walks the earth."

"The worst crime the white man has committed is not just slavery and lynching, but creating in the mind of black man the idea that he is inferior."

"An oppressed people are created by an oppressive system, not the other way around."

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