Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

To demand these God-given rights is to seek black power

Here everyone is his own master. Civil liberty places all inhabitants on an equal footing. The humble cannot be oppressed by the mighty, nor the poor by the rich.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

I stand up for all rights.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

Idea of holding each other’s hands at the Women’s March—it feels like we are being invited to do that every day. So many of us are feeling attacked, whether it’s a woman’s right to choose or headstones in a Jewish cemetery, immigrants being deported or banned. So many of us feel the need to protect and defend our democracy. And march toward the dream of being “We the people.” So that’s exciting, scary, and frustrating. We’re awake. We are awake more than ever before, and we have to stay awake.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.