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 foundation of peace."Octavio Paz
"Justice without mercy is cruelty."Octavio Paz
"Justice demands that we hear all voices."Carlos Fuentes
"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere."Carlos Fuentes
"We are all responsible for the world we leave behind."Gioconda Belli
"The greatest love stories are written in the struggle for justice."Gioconda Belli
"To honor the dead is to commit to changing the world for the living."Gioconda Belli
"In the face of injustice, silence becomes complicity."Gioconda Belli
"We inherit injustice; we must choose justice."Gioconda Belli
"Women are not born, they are made."Rosario Castellanos
"Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere."Rosario Castellanos
"The feminine voice has been systematically erased from history."Rosario Castellanos
"The oppressed must write their own stories or others will write them."Rosario Castellanos
"The pursuit of justice is the pursuit of our own humanity."Rosario Castellanos
"The body is the site where political oppression is enacted."Rosario Castellanos
"The heart of justice is the recognition of another's humanity."Rosario Castellanos
"The common people are the heart of any nation, though often their voices go unheard."Mariano Azuela
"Justice delayed is often justice denied to those who need it most."Mariano Azuela
"A society that forgets its poor will itself become impoverished."Mariano Azuela
"Justice delayed is justice denied, yet still necessary."Rubén Darío
"Justice is the dream of all who have suffered."Rubén Darío
"Memory is a form of resistance against forgetting."Elena Garro
"My pen became my weapon when bullets could not speak for the voiceless."Nellie Campobello
"To document suffering is an act of defiance against forgetting."Nellie Campobello
"In Cartucho, I gave names and faces to the faceless victims of war."Nellie Campobello
"I wrote so that the voiceless would have a voice in eternity."Nellie Campobello
"I wrote against forgetting because forgetting is a form of violence."Nellie Campobello
"The voice of the people is the voice of truth."Juan Rulfo
"Justice is not served by law alone, but by conscience."Juan Rulfo
"The intellectual's duty is to question power, even when it is uncomfortable."Carlos Fuentes