Justice Quotes

"The wilderness has no lobbyists in Congress, so we must be their voice."

"The environment does not have a profit margin, which is precisely why it needs advocates."

"Every preserved landscape is a victory against the tyranny of the merely profitable."

"Justice delayed is a wound that never heals."

"The voice of the voiceless is the voice of justice."

"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its most vulnerable."

"The task of the intellectual is to undo the silencing of those deemed unimportant."

"We are all implicated in systems of exploitation and representation."

"The margin speaks, but who listens?"

"Feminism cannot be reduced to a single message or demand."

"Solidarity is not sympathy but a practice of accountability."

"The subaltern's silence is not absence but a presence we cannot access."

"The question of ethics cannot be separated from politics."

"We cannot represent others, but we are responsible for our representations."

"We must learn to listen to those we usually silence."

"We must persistently ask: who gets to speak and who is silenced?"

"The wound of colonization runs deeper than economics; it penetrates the soul itself."

"The cry of the enslaved echoes through the corridors of history."

"Silence in the face of wrong is a form of complicity."

"We must create a world where every person's humanity is recognized."

"I cannot rest while there is poverty in this world and people are hungry."

"Justice without environmental protection is hollow justice."

"The work of environmental justice is the work of healing a broken world."

"When you see injustice, you have a moral obligation to act."

"In the eyes of those who suffer, we see the face of injustice."

"Every native has among his relations and friends ex-servicemen, who are living on this meager pension in the midst of the most appalling poverty."

"Racism and its practices poison the mentality of the general population even when it is not visibly active."

"In the colonial sphere, the psychiatrist is a servant of the colonial regime."

"The colonial world is divided into two: the zone of being and the zone of non-being."

"Landlessness is the primary form of colonial exploitation."