Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"Justice is the highest human value."Friedrich Engels
"No man is truly free who controls another man's labor."Michel Bakunin
"The patriot is not the one who loves his nation, but one who loves justice."Michel Bakunin
"Economic inequality breeds political oppression and social decay."Michel Bakunin
"Justice demands that privilege be abolished and equality established."Michel Bakunin
"Capital is theft; the worker creates all value."Michel Bakunin
"Poverty is not natural but created by exploitative systems."Michel Bakunin
"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere and demands response."Michel Bakunin
"Patience with injustice is complicity in that injustice."Michel Bakunin
"Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights."Emma Goldman
"Every society has the criminals it deserves."Emma Goldman
"To ask for justice in a court of law is to ask for bread from a stone."Emma Goldman
"The measure of a civilization is the freedom it accords to minorities."Emma Goldman
"The oppressed and the oppressor both lose their humanity."Emma Goldman
"The real crime is not the stealing of goods but the exploitation of human labor."Emma Goldman
"Every person has the right to develop their talents and capacities."Peter Kropotkin
"A just society cannot be built on foundations of injustice."Peter Kropotkin
"Intelligence is distributed equally among all classes; only opportunity is not."Peter Kropotkin
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and patience with oppression is no virtue."Peter Kropotkin
"A corrupt official is more dangerous than an invading army."Simón Bolívar
"To be just is to be happy, and injustice brings only misery."Simón Bolívar
"To create a just society, one must be willing to sacrifice personal comfort."Simón Bolívar
"A just law is worth more than a hundred armies."Simón Bolívar
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps."Karl Marx
"Labour in the white skin can never free itself as long as labour in the black skin is branded."Karl Marx
"Society can be freed from the bonds of interest only by the conscious action of the working class."Karl Marx
"Every diminution of the predisposing causes to crime must be considered as a proportional diminution of crime itself."Karl Marx
"In a rational society, there would be no poverty."Karl Marx
"Subalternity is not just an economic condition but a total way of being."Antonio Gramsci
"The dominated group's intellectuals must develop a counter-hegemony to challenge domination."Antonio Gramsci