Justice Quotes

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

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"Accountability cannot exist without transparency"
Seymour Hersh
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"Without accountability, institutions become instruments of oppression"
Seymour Hersh
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"The public trust is broken when institutions deliberately mislead"
Seymour Hersh
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"Institutions protect their own interests before they protect the public interest"
Seymour Hersh
"The world needs witnesses—people willing to see and speak what they see."
Diane Sawyer
"The responsibility of telling someone's story is sacred—never take it lightly."
Diane Sawyer
"I think the job of journalism is to illuminate what others want hidden."
Diane Sawyer
"I believe that every story, no matter how small, deserves to be told."
Diane Sawyer
"The strength of a community is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable."
Diane Sawyer
"The story that matters most is often the one nobody's telling."
Diane Sawyer
"Justice requires both justice and mercy—the tension between them is where wisdom lives."
Katie Couric
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Katie Couric
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"Persistence in pursuing justice is never wasted effort."
James Foley
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
James Foley
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"The pursuit of justice is never truly finished."
James Foley
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"We must speak for those who have been silenced."
James Foley
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"The greatest crimes in the world are not deeds of violence by crazy fanatics but crimes of infinite coldness and inattention."
Tom Wolfe
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, and silence is complicity."
Tom Wolfe
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"A journalist's job is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted."
Seymour Hersh
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"The public has a right to know what their government does in their name."
Seymour Hersh
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"Accountability journalism is democracy's immune system."
Seymour Hersh
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"Investigative reporting is detective work with a moral dimension."
Seymour Hersh
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"The public deserves to know about governmental decisions made in secret."
Seymour Hersh
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"Silence in the face of injustice makes you complicit in it."
Seymour Hersh
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"To say that genocide is a tragedy is to understate the case."
Christopher Hitchens
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"Women are not a special interest group that needs patronizing."
Christopher Hitchens
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"The burden of proof is not on the accused to prove innocence but on the accuser to prove guilt."
Christopher Hitchens
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"If you don't cover these stories, the people who suffer the most are forgotten."
Marie Colvin
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"Every story I tell is about real people suffering real consequences."
Marie Colvin
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"I believe that bearing witness is a form of resistance."
Marie Colvin