Justice Quotes

"Development must leave people with their dignity."

"Every creature has a right to live on this earth."

"The problem is not that we do not have the resources; the problem is that we have not been willing to share them."

"If we do not demand accountability from those in power, we become complicit in their crimes."

"The struggle for human rights and environmental conservation are one and the same struggle."

"When resources are distributed fairly, societies become more stable and peaceful."

"I believe that justice is not negotiable; it is fundamental."

"The tragedy of the commons is that each person acts in their own best interest, destroying what they all depend upon."

"Conservation requires that we expand our sense of community to include creatures with no voice in our affairs."

"Each species has a right to exist simply because it exists, not because it serves human needs."

"Justice cannot be separated from the question of who deserves rights."

"The law exists to preserve its own exceptions."

"To leave this wretchedness, the native has only one choice: out-of-the-way act of violence."

"The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers."

"The colonial world is a compartmentalized world."

"Healing is inseparable from the liberation of the colonized."

"The colonized live in a world cut in two."

"Racism is the racial form of imperialism."

"An intellectual has a responsibility to use that power as honestly and as powerfully as possible."

"The intellectual must work against injustice wherever it appears."

"Solidarity with the oppressed is not sentimental but a political and ethical necessity."

"Justice requires understanding the particular as well as the universal."

"The intellectual's role is to make visible what power seeks to hide."

"Otherness cannot be reduced to sameness without violence."

"Justice requires dismantling systems of oppression at their roots."

"Justice is always deferred."

"Law is mad without justice."

"Responsibility cannot be calculated."

"Justice is always justice to come."

"Justice requires an impossible decision."