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Social justice Quotes

"Women make up more than half of the world's population and potential, so it is neither just nor practical for their voices, for our voices, to go unheard at the highest levels of decision-making."

"I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed—geared toward improving our entire society"

"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."

"There are truths we have to grapple with. For instance, women and girls have always been second-class citizens around the world. This isn't something we just started struggling with, it's the reality that we all were born into."

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must t"

"When religion and royalty are destroyed, the people will attack the nobles; after the nobles, the rich"

"The people who feel the most passion about an issue are hardly ever the people who are under-nourished"

"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance"

"I was an activist long before I even knew what the word meant"

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher"

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral"

"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent"

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world"

"Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity."

"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."

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