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 served through truthful witness-bearing."Hilda Doolittle
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The advancement of women is the advancement of the race."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"We must build a world based on justice."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Justice must be pursued relentlessly."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Every person has inherent dignity."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Nor is it valid to discriminate against the blues."Marianne Moore
"Justice delayed is justice denied, but hasty justice is injustice."Marianne Moore
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Justice is what we do in order that things be as they ought to be."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Justice requires us to question systems that harm the many."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Justice without mercy is merely vengeance dressed in respectability."Amy Lowell
"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice rushed is injustice enacted."Amy Lowell
"A nation's progress is measured not by its wealth, but by its treatment of the vulnerable."Fannie Hurst
"Every woman should have the right to shape her own destiny."Kate Chopin
"Justice requires courage and unwavering commitment to what is right."Kate Chopin
"Justice demands that we challenge systems of oppression."Kate Chopin
"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"The expectations placed upon women are chains of invisible weight."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"In defending others' rights, we strengthen our own."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"The heartbeat of a community is found in its treatment of the most vulnerable."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Distrust all in whom the love of power predominates over the love of liberty."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Social consciousness begins with individual responsibility."Fannie Hurst
"Justice delayed is truth forgotten."Fannie Hurst
"Justice delayed becomes injustice perpetuated."Fannie Hurst
"Justice requires not just law, but understanding and mercy."Amy Lowell
"Justice demands that we speak for those without voice."Amy Lowell