Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"Watergate taught us that no one is above the law."Carl Bernstein
"The public deserves transparency from government."Carl Bernstein
"The Fourth Estate exists to hold the powerful accountable."Carl Bernstein
"Corruption cannot survive exposure."Carl Bernstein
"The story is only the beginning of accountability."Carl Bernstein
"Accountability starts with asking hard questions."Carl Bernstein
"Accountability is the cure for corruption."Carl Bernstein
"The pursuit of truth is the pursuit of justice."Carl Bernstein
"Accountability cannot exist without transparency."Carl Bernstein
"The role of the media is to expose, not excuse."Carl Bernstein
"I have always worked to expose the truth."Nellie Bly
"I have always believed in fighting for the underdog."Nellie Bly
"I sought to give voice to those without voices."Nellie Bly
"The world is full of injustice that demands our attention."Nellie Bly
"I sought to make the invisible visible."Nellie Bly
"I have always believed that every person deserves justice."Nellie Bly
"I sought to reveal injustice wherever I found it."Nellie Bly
"Justice demands that we speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves."Barbara Walters
"One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap."Ida B. Wells
"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them, but that is not the remedy which justice demands."Ida B. Wells
"No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States, has ever allowed its courts of justice to become instruments for the perpetration of judicial lynching."Ida B. Wells
"What one race owes to another is justice."Ida B. Wells
"We are not asking for charity, we are demanding our rights."Ida B. Wells
"The privilege of my position is the responsibility to amplify voices that go unheard."Anderson Cooper
"Justice requires persistence even when progress feels impossibly slow."Anderson Cooper
"Challenge the powerful with respect, but challenge them nonetheless."Dan Rather
"The responsibility of the press is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."Dan Rather
"In the face of injustice, silence is complicity."Dan Rather
"I didn't become a whistleblower for glory or recognition. I did it because silence would have made me complicit."Edward Snowden
"When systems become too corrupt to reform through normal channels, extraordinary action becomes necessary."Edward Snowden