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 a dream we haven't achieved."
Kathy Acker
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"Silence is violence."
Kathy Acker
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"We are all complicit in injustice."
Kathy Acker
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"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature."
Abraham Lincoln
"Justice delayed is justice denied"
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Justice is the pillar of civilization"
Miguel Ángel Asturias
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"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
Nelson Mandela
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"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
Nelson Mandela
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"A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."
Nelson Mandela
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"The hunger for an equal place at table, you cannot take away."
Nelson Mandela
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"The novel is democracy in its purest form."
Jorge Edwards
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"To write about suffering is to honor those who suffer."
Jorge Edwards
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"To be a writer is to be responsible for the truth you know."
Jorge Edwards
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"The writer speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves."
Jorge Edwards
"The problem of the Indian is the problem of the land."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Feminism is not about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength."
Gioconda Belli
"Justice is the foundation upon which a just society is built."
Gioconda Belli
"Justice without mercy is tyranny."
Gioconda Belli
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"Society rewards conformity and punishes authenticity."
Kathy Acker
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"We're all trapped by the systems we live in."
Kathy Acker
"The true source of rights is duty."
Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi
"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Recall the face of the poorest and weakest person you may have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The rich must live more simply so that the simple may simply live."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A right delayed is a right denied."
Martin Luther King Jr.