Justice Quotes

"The margin is not outside the center but constitutive of its very formation."

"Colonial violence is not aberration but constitutive of the colonial order itself."

"Cultural difference cannot be managed or contained through multicultural frameworks alone."

"Justice is the foundation of peace."

"Justice protects the innocent."

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

"No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by trying to guide them as if they were disabled."

"Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order."

"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well."

"The process of humanization must be pursued by the oppressed themselves, not for them by the oppressors."

"In the process of liberation, the oppressed must not become the new oppressors of their former oppressors."

"The oppressed suffer from the duality of being less than fully human yet possessing the humanity to demand liberation."

"Humanization is not the privilege of a few, but the right and vocation of all."

"Love cannot exist without justice; justice requires love to achieve true humanization."

"The answer to oppression is not counter-oppression but the liberation of all."

"Where there is social inequality, there can be no true peace."

"The act of naming is itself a political act; it determines who has the power to define reality."

"Subaltern voices are not simply suppressed; they speak through the very language and categories that were imposed upon them."

"Justice requires both reason and compassion."

"Justice without mercy is cruelty."

"Unconsciousness of a social evil is the condition for its continuance."

"It is the greatest injustice to prefer a vague right to a definite good."

"We measure our civilization by its treatment of the weakest members."

"Justice is the cornerstone of a peaceful society."

"Justice without mercy becomes tyranny."

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful."

"Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order."

"The dehumanization which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, but also those who have stolen it, is a terrible thing."

"Those who come to an understanding of injustice cannot ignore it."

"For the oppressor, humanization does not mean confirming others, but confirming themselves."