Justice Quotes

"The colonized man's inferiority is not an original fact but the result of the colonial situation."

"The colonial situation is a Manichaean situation, absolutely intransigent and uncompromising."

"The colonized masses will realize that poverty is not written in heaven; it is colonial policy."

"The psychiatrist in the colonial sphere is not primarily a healer of individuals but a guardian of the colonial regime."

"The voice of the voiceless must be the cry of the conscious."

"The point is not to mystify authority but to understand how it operates and to contest it."

"Authority and force do not mix well; they cannot produce truth."

"The task of criticism is to delineate the space in which human freedom is possible."

"Today's tolerance is masking an inability to tolerate the other."

"The problem with political correctness is not the positions themselves but the smugness."

"The worst crime is not killing but reducing someone to mere existence."

"The ultimate obscenity is not violence but indifference."

"Justice requires the dismantling of existing structures."

"I am of no race but that of humanity."

"The colonizer carries the seed of his own destruction."

"We must reclaim our right to our own humanity."

"The voice of the oppressed will not be silenced."

"Every person deserves to be recognized as human."

"Art gives voice to the voiceless."

"Every voice matters in the chorus of humanity."

"We speak for those who cannot."

"The struggle for justice is eternal."

"In the face of injustice, silence is complicity; we must speak truth to power."

"The subaltern cannot speak without first being recognized as capable of speech."

"The ethical demand comes from those we cannot fully know or represent."

"The very concept of literacy is shaped by colonial histories and contemporary inequities."

"We must be vigilant about the violence that representation always enacts."

"The question of representation cannot be separated from the question of power."

"We tolerate injustice because we have normalized it into common sense."

"If we do not fight for our rights, if we do not fight for the environment, who will?"