Justice Quotes

"The ability to recognize injustice is the beginning of correction."

"People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become."

"Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?"

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes swimming back to them, poisoned."

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

"Defend the helpless and speak for them, because they cannot speak for themselves."

"It is not a question of whether there are white racists; it is a question of what is it that is happening now, and how many white people are willing to do something about it."

"The function of freedom is to free someone else."

"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs, you will be the less-paid women, and frankly, that's a real problem.'"

"The worst thing that can happen to a woman is to be invisible."

"The Negro is not a problem, but only to those who don't understand him."

"Justice is worth fighting for."

"Justice is the foundation of a free society."

"I would rather starve than eat bread earned from the sweat of another man's brow."

"A nation that denies the humanity of its people cannot call itself civilized."

"The color of a man's skin should never determine the content of his character."

"To accept injustice is to become complicit in it."

"The real crime is not stealing bread but denying a man the right to earn it."

"Society is built on the suffering of those it ignores."

"The hunger for justice burns in the hearts of the oppressed."

"A society reveals its true nature in how it treats its weakest members."

"The moral test of society is how it treats its prisoners."

"Prejudice blinds people to the humanity in others, diminishing us all."

"To accept injustice is to perpetuate it."

"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even skepticism."

"Racism, sexism, and all forms of discrimination are borne in ignorance."

"There is no way to be as free as a black woman in America unless you become psychically, culturally, and politically free."

"The function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work."

"The roots of racism are too deep to be destroyed by any single generation."