Justice Quotes

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

27299 quotes

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"Justice delayed is justice denied, and we have been denied for far too long."
Angela Davis
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"We cannot separate the fight for racial justice from the fight for economic justice."
Angela Davis
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"The most important thing is that we stop accepting the unacceptable."
Naomi Klein
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"This is not just about climate change, it's about justice."
Naomi Klein
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"We must challenge the systems that created this crisis."
Naomi Klein
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"We must listen to those most affected by crisis."
Naomi Klein
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"We must center the voices of frontline communities."
Naomi Klein
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"We cannot separate social justice from climate justice."
Naomi Klein
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Naomi Klein
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"We cannot buy our way to justice."
Naomi Klein
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"Justice is not a luxury; it is a necessity."
Naomi Klein
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"Black feminism isn't about replacing one hierarchy with another; it's about dismantling hierarchies altogether."
Barbara Smith
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"The measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable."
Barbara Smith
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Barbara Smith
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"There is no such thing as the voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."
Arundhati Roy
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"Morality is a luxury for the wealthy."
Arundhati Roy
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"We're all complicit in the systems that oppress us."
Arundhati Roy
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"We need to learn to listen to the voices we've been ignoring."
Arundhati Roy
"Fossil fuels are the most important thing holding back the emergence of a more just and peaceful world"
Bill McKibben
"The great tragedy of the climate crisis is that seven and a half billion people must pay the price—in the form of a degraded planet—so that a couple of dozen polluting interests can continue to make record profits"
Bill McKibben
"Divestment is a moral stance"
Bill McKibben
"Climate change is the physical manifestation of inequality"
Bill McKibben
"Climate justice is social justice"
Bill McKibben
"Climate change is a moral issue, not just an environmental one"
Bill McKibben
"We must be fierce in our commitment to justice"
Bill McKibben
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"The intersectionality of our struggles teaches us that liberation must be collective or it is not liberation at all."
Barbara Smith
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"Silence protects the perpetrator; speaking up protects the vulnerable."
Barbara Smith
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"Patriarchy and environmental destruction are sisters—they both require domination."
Winona LaDuke
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"The work of social justice and environmental justice cannot be separated."
Winona LaDuke
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"Climate justice is about power—who has it and who doesn't."
Winona LaDuke