Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
27299 quotes
R
E
E
E
H
H
A
A
A
A
A
A
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
J
"To remain indifferent to injustice is to participate in it."Rodolfo Walsh
"Injustice anywhere is a wound on the collective body of humanity."Ernesto Sabato
"To be just requires constant vigilance against our own capacity for cruelty."Ernesto Sabato
"The call to justice is both our burden and our opportunity for transcendence."Ernesto Sabato
"Justice requires we question even our deepest convictions."Haroldo Conti
"Justice demands we extend mercy even to ourselves."Haroldo Conti
"Justice must be the foundation of society"Leopoldo Lugones
"Justice delayed is justice denied"Leopoldo Lugones
"The land remembers what the government forgets - every injustice carved into its soil."Alcides Arguedas
"The greatest lie is to call inequality natural, and the greatest truth is to name it theft."Alcides Arguedas
"In the face of historical injustice, neutrality is merely the voice of the privileged."Alcides Arguedas
"Poverty and ignorance are not natural conditions; they are manufactured by systems designed to benefit the few."Alcides Arguedas
"Inequality becomes invisible only when we stop looking for it, which is precisely when we should look hardest."Alcides Arguedas
"Injustice is not an aberration in the system; it is frequently the system itself functioning as designed."Alcides Arguedas
"The price of progress is always paid by those left behind."Gabriel García Márquez
"Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere."Gabriel García Márquez
"To remain silent in the face of injustice is to become complicit."Rodolfo Walsh
"The murdered deserve more than mourning; they deserve truth."Rodolfo Walsh
"Justice requires both memory and action."Rodolfo Walsh
"The silence of witnesses is the victory of murderers."Rodolfo Walsh
"The disappeared demand witnesses."Rodolfo Walsh
"Justice without truth is mere revenge."Rodolfo Walsh
"The testimony of the oppressed is the testimony of truth."Rodolfo Walsh
"Justice begins where investigation begins."Rodolfo Walsh
"The silence of the powerful is the loudest lie."Rodolfo Walsh
"To be silenced is to be murdered twice."Rodolfo Walsh
"Justice is what the powerful decide it to be."Juan Carlos Onetti
"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied; it is justice corrupted."Leopoldo Lugones
"I would rather be a hypocrite in the direction of justice than a sincere believer in injustice."Julio Cortázar
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Julio Cortázar