Quotes on Social Justice

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

Your silence will not protect you.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.