Justice Quotes

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

27299 quotes

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"Cultural rules dictate what women should be, but we can rewrite those rules."
Kathy Acker
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"The most radical act is to speak your truth when silence is demanded."
Kathy Acker
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"To write is to claim a voice that culture may not want you to have."
Kathy Acker
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"The most radical act is to insist on your right to exist on your own terms."
Kathy Acker
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"Women are not born; they are made through culture and society."
Rosario Castellanos
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"Injustice becomes invisible when we stop looking at it."
Rosario Castellanos
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"The voice of the marginalized carries truths the powerful cannot hear."
Rosario Castellanos
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"Justice is built not in courtrooms but in the daily choices we make."
Elena Garro
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"Justice without mercy is merely revenge wearing robes."
Elena Garro
"Justice is not a destination but a continuous journey."
Gioconda Belli
"Injustice anywhere diminishes humanity everywhere."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"To witness injustice and remain silent is complicity."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"The true measure of a nation is how it treats the vulnerable."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"The voice of the voiceless is the music of justice."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
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"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
Abraham Lincoln
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"How hard it is to realize that God is just; that He hates injustice and slavery."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. It may be a sin to hold a slave under our banner."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Mariano Azuela
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"Justice requires courage to demand it."
Mariano Azuela
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"The price of dignity is eternal vigilance."
Rosario Castellanos
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"The voice of the voiceless is the artist's burden."
Rosario Castellanos
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"The work of justice never ends."
Rosario Castellanos
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"Justice delayed is not justice; it is merely vengeance in slow clothes"
Rubén Darío
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"Justice without mercy is law's cruelty masquerading as righteousness"
Rubén Darío
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"To witness injustice and do nothing is to become part of it."
Nellie Campobello
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"The voice of the oppressed is the conscience of the nation."
Nellie Campobello
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"We must speak for those whose voices have been taken away."
Nellie Campobello
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"In revolution, every life is valuable and every voice matters."
Nellie Campobello
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"Justice is a conversation that never truly ends."
Elena Garro