Justice Quotes

"Colonialism and imperialism have not paid their debt when they withdraw their police forces and their troops."

"The native's reason is always a criminal's reason."

"The colonizer only proves the other right in retreating geographically from the soil he has occupied."

"We must recognize the right of peoples to dispose of themselves."

"The colonized makes counter-ethnography."

"Colonialism is a whole structure which must be destroyed from bottom to top."

"The psychiatric system often functions as a mechanism of social control."

"Institutional analysis reveals the hidden structures that shape our daily lives."

"The mental hospital is a space where normality is imposed through subtle violence."

"The psychiatric establishment often serves to depoliticize human suffering."

"We live in a society of judgment, constantly being assessed and categorized"

"The minor literature speaks for those without a voice"

"Justice requires us to think beyond the categories that law has imposed upon us."

"We are all complicit in the systems we claim to oppose."

"The greatest violence is often the silence surrounding structural injustice."

"What we call justice is usually just the formalization of existing power relations."

"Forgiveness is possible only when it exceeds calculation and expectation."

"Justice involves a decision that cannot be programmed in advance."

"Law is neither pure justice nor pure violence but their undecidable mixture."

"Epistemic violence occurs when we assume we can know the other completely."

"The task is not to speak for the other, but to create conditions for their speech."

"The Global South cannot be reduced to victimhood or authenticity."

"The subaltern exists in the spaces between official histories and lived experience."

"Justice requires we attend to what is excluded from visibility."

"History is written by those with access to the archive, and this must be resisted."

"Power relations shape what counts as legitimate knowledge."

"We must remain vigilant against the violence of representation."

"Justice requires that all voices be heard in discourse"

"The validity of norms depends on their acceptance by those affected"

"The best arguments should prevail in democratic debate"