Home / Topics / Social Justice Quotes

Social Justice Quotes

Browse 2520 quotes about Social Justice.

Social Justice Quotes

“First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.”

People Thinking World Writing Different Justice Racism Police Social Justice Sexism Homophobia

Author:Karin Slaughter

“Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.”

Problem Culture Black Justice Feminism Diversity Racism Social Justice Response Rational Nationalism Sexism Black Nationalism

Author:Pearl Cleage

“The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.”

People Different Matter Evil Justice Violence Brother Gay Racism Social Justice Pursuit Sexism Brothers And Sisters Homophobia Gay People Otherness

Author:Anna Quindlen

“We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.”

Knows Children Ends Justice Diversity Racism Abuse Social Justice Bigotry Sexism Denied Child Abuse Homophobia

Author:Urvashi Vaid

“Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.”

Way Problem Reality Justice Our Lives Drink Diversity Racism Social Justice Shoes Cups Ties Sexism Topics Defining

Author:Paula Rothenberg

“Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.”

Should Believe Social Justice Feminism Movement Position Racism Social Justice Sexism Consistently Being A Woman Classism Position Of Power

Author:Jessica Valenti

“Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair.”

War Poverty Environment Social Justice Charity Inequality Abortion Sexism Racim

Author:Ronald Rolheiser

“It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral and intellectual repercussions are so deep in woman that they appear to spring from an original nature. The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully.”

Women Feminism Social Justice Discrimination Sexism Misogyny

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“Apes will talk (Naskaristana 2728) Every time a human disrupts convention, apes will talk. Every time a human chooses humanity over nation, apes will talk. Every time a human loves across culture and border, apes will talk. Every time a human marries same gender, apes will talk. Every time a human chooses to abort, apes will talk. Every time a human refuses misogyny and toxic masculinity, apes will talk. Apes will talk, and it hardly matters - opinion of the apes is irrelevant in human affairs.”

Freedom Racism Social Justice Human Rights Nationalism Sexism Right Wing Xenophobia Far Right People Will Talk

Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Accept nothing less than a revolution.”

Feminism Social Justice Discrimination Sexism Misogyny

Book:Enough: the violence against women and how to end it

Source: Enough: the violence against women and how to end it

“Division is the surest way to frustrate a social movement.”

Feminism Social Justice Discrimination Sexism Misogyny

Book:Enough: the violence against women and how to end it

Source: Enough: the violence against women and how to end it

“Consider: Anyone can turn his hand to anything. This sounds very simple, but its psychological effects are incalculable. The fact that everyone between seventeen and thirty-five or so is liable to be (as Nim put it) "tied down to childbearing," implies that no one is quite so thoughly "tied down" here as women, elsewhere, are likely to be -- psuchologically or physically. Burden and privilege are shared out pretty equally; everybody has the same risk to run or choice to make. Therefore nobody here is quite so free as a free male anywhere else.”

Sex Social Justice Sexism Gender Roles

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness