Gloria Steinem Quotes About Social Justice

Quotes about: Social Justice

• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

• America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

  Gloria Steinem

  Cupcakes, America, People

• It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

  Gloria Steinem

  Names, Justice, Calling

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.798, Open Road Media

• Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

  Gloria Steinem

  Teacher, School, Justice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.145, Open Road Media

• Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Numbers, Justice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.364, Open Road Media

• Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Race, Diversity

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

• As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Justice, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

• Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

  Gloria Steinem

  Justice, People, Sitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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