Sayers on categorization

One of the errors in discussions regarding racism and social justice, I believe, is that injustice is viewed almost totally in categorical or socio-economic terms (similar to Marxist thought), rather than in the full light of biblical justice, which includes individual, moral considerations. 

Recently, I came across some quotes from Dorothy Sayers (1893--1957) who was a friend and contemporary of C. S. Lewis. I've always enjoyed her mystery stories and was deeply impressed with her book, The Mind of the Maker (1941). 

In thinking through the legitimate issues raised by the feminists of her day, she sounded warnings on the danger of categorization, that is, in being too prone to deal simply with racial, gender, economic, and class distinctions. She wrote...   

“It is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious. That 'obvious,' all too often, was the basic humanity of all humans." (Are Women Human?)

"In reaction against the age-old slogan, 'woman is the weaker vessel,' or the still more offensive, 'woman is a divine creature,' we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that 'a woman is as good as a man', without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: not that every woman is, in virtue of her sex, as strong, clever, artistic, level-headed, industrious and so forth as any man that can be mentioned; but that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person."

“What is unreasonable and irritating is to assume that all one’s tastes and preferences have to be conditioned by the class to which one belongs.” 

“We are much too much inclined these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served...”

"To oppose one class perpetually to another—young against old, manual labor against brainworker, rich against poor, woman against man—is to split the foundations of the State; and if the cleavage runs too deep, there remains no remedy but force and dictatorship." 

See also "Dorothy Sayers: A Self Entire" here.