Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

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"One cannot be indifferent in the face of injustice; indifference is itself a political act."
Antonio Gramsci
"Justice requires examining the structural conditions that create inequality."
Friedrich Engels
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"Equality is necessary; hierarchy breeds resentment and rebellion."
Michel Bakunin
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"Justice requires the redistribution of power."
Michel Bakunin
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"The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair"
Emma Goldman
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"The most important thing in any community is the preservation of human dignity"
Emma Goldman
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"Equality means not merely voting rights but economic justice"
Emma Goldman
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"Acceptance of injustice is betrayal of those who struggle"
Emma Goldman
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"A law that is contrary to justice is no law at all."
Simón Bolívar
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"A society that ignores its outcasts will itself become outcast."
Simón Bolívar
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"Justice delayed is justice denied; swift action is the mark of true law."
Simón Bolívar
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"The strength of a chain is determined by its weakest link; we must strengthen all."
Simón Bolívar
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"Criticism should be practiced not as a judgment, but as a tool for change and transformation."
Michel Foucault
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"The hospital is not a place of healing but a space of observation and control."
Michel Foucault
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"A revolution is the result of centuries of oppression and injustice."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Justice delayed is justice denied; reform is too slow."
Peter Kropotkin
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"To accept the world as it is, is to accept injustice."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Justice delayed breeds a revolution that cannot be delayed."
Peter Kropotkin
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
Karl Marx
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"The fact that labour produces marvels for the rich but misery for the poor."
Karl Marx
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"Private property is the result of the theft of common property."
Karl Marx
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"Surplus value can only arise from the exploitation of living labour-power."
Karl Marx
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"Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded."
Karl Marx
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"The dignity of labor is restored only when workers control the means of production."
Karl Marx
"The real difference is not between those who work and those who don't, but between those who exploit and those who are exploited."
Friedrich Engels
"Justice cannot exist within an unjust system."
Friedrich Engels
"Justice deferred is justice denied to those who suffer today."
Friedrich Engels
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"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free."
Michel Bakunin
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"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer."
Michel Bakunin
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"The working class must develop its own intellectuals and not simply rely on those provided by the dominant classes."
Antonio Gramsci