"If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar."

Justice, Husband, Right, Woman

33

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar."

Exlpore more Justice quotes

"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."

Stephen King, American Author

Justice, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Today

"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Justice, Law, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Racism is a disease of white people."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Justice, Racism, Disease, Truth, Equality

"She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Justice, Truth, Influence, Injustice

"ProtectionI requested the figures on OSHA whistle-blower complaints made and the number actually upheld. OSHA refused to supply them. They also refused to uphold my OSHA complaints and provide whistle-blower protection to me. My independent research leads me to understand that they uphold almost no OSHA whistle-blower complaints. It is very concerning that it seems like the same thing is happening with complaints made to Police Internal Affairs."

Steven Magee, British Author

Justice, Protection, Complaint, Corruption

"Nothing can make injustice just but mercy."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Justice, Injustice, Mercy, Nothing

"America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

Justice, America, Property, Genocide, Offense

"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Justice, Tax, Income, Man, Will

"I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

Justice, Tyranny, Oppression, Action

"There is but one blasphemy and that is injustice."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Justice, Injustice, Morality, Sin, Ethics

Explore more quotes by Lucy Stone

"To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life."

Life

"The idea of equal rights was in the air."

Creativity

"Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things."

Truth

"Leave women to find their sphere."

Woman

"Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations."

Woman

"But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote."

Home

"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned."

Woman

"I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body."

Time

"I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex."

Sex

"If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar."

Justice