Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

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"To deny oppressed people their ontological vocation of becoming more fully human is to do them an injustice."
Paulo Freire
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"To be neutral in the face of injustice is to support the perpetrator."
Paulo Freire
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"Justice requires understanding the particularity of each situation"
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"Generosity is the flower of justice."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"Justice is the realization of freedom in the social order."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The highest form of art is the creation of a just society."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Justice without compassion is tyranny; compassion without justice is mere sentimentality."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"In the face of injustice, silence becomes complicity; we must speak with courage and conviction."
Johann Pestalozzi
"In the face of injustice, silence becomes complicity; speak your truth with courage."
John Amos Comenius
"The smallest act of justice is worth more than the grandest speech about it."
John Amos Comenius
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"Justice demands the equal treatment of equals."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Evil is the privation of the good."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Ethics is the science of the universal."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Every human being has a right to be educated."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"Justice requires both impartial judgment and compassion for the particular circumstance."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"The oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity, become oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restore humanity to all."
Paulo Freire
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"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves and their oppressors."
Paulo Freire
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"Oppression cannot be overcome by the oppressed becoming oppressors; it requires a new vision of humanity."
Paulo Freire
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"We cannot be neutral about matters of justice; neutrality itself becomes a form of complicity."
Paulo Freire
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"The development of the moral sense is one of the most important aspects of human development."
Maria Montessori
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"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"Nothing is more distressing than a great person who has failed in his duty."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"That which is hateful, abandon!"
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer."
John Amos Comenius
"Justice requires courage and commitment to truth."
John Amos Comenius
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"Justice consists in treating equals equally and unequals unequally."
John Dewey
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"The private good cannot be separated from the public good."
John Dewey
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"Justice requires the reconciliation of particular wills."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyranny."
Ibn Sina
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"Scarcity is not just a personal failing, it's a systemic issue."
Sendhil Mullainathan