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