bell hooks Justice Quotations

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Without justice there can be no love.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love.

Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.