society Quotes

One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.