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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"One cannot build a just society on the foundation of half the population being denied full participation."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C
"A person should be known by their contributions, not their circumstances of birth."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
B
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Booth Tarkington
B
"Justice is the foundation of a moral society."
Booth Tarkington
U
"The most effective way to understand society is to observe how it treats those with the least power."
Upton Sinclair
U
"We are all complicit when we remain silent in the face of injustice."
Upton Sinclair
M
"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Justice is the bedrock of civilization."
Sherwood Anderson
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Sherwood Anderson
O
"We are all guilty of the same crimes, but the only difference is that we punish ourselves with different severities."
O. Henry
O
"Justice delayed is justice denied, but hasty justice is injustice."
O. Henry
B
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Booth Tarkington
U
"The jungle of capitalist competition makes honest dealing impossible."
Upton Sinclair
U
"Those who profit from suffering have no conscience to appeal to."
Upton Sinclair
J
"I am Jack London, socialist and revolutionist."
Jack London
C
"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C
"A woman's sphere should be bounded only by her abilities and her conscience."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C
"The measure of a civilization is not its greatest achievements, but its care for the vulnerable."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C
"A society that denies half its people their potential denies itself greatness."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
O
"Justice is the only true name of God."
O. Henry
"The real crime is not in doing wrong, but in pretending to be right."
Sherwood Anderson
G
"A liar has not the privilege to make an oath."
Gertrude Stein
B
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Booth Tarkington
B
"Justice must be blind to favor the innocent fairly."
Booth Tarkington
K
"Society's rules are often designed to protect the powerful, not to protect us."
Kate Chopin
J
"Society has not yet resolved the problem of poverty."
Jack London
U
"The social body is the one that has become ill because of the sickness of its economic system."
Upton Sinclair
U
"The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you do not listen to it, you will never know justice."
Upton Sinclair
U
"The question is not whether we can afford to do these things, but whether we can afford not to."
Upton Sinclair
U
"We have come to a stage in our social evolution where we can no longer endure injustice."
Upton Sinclair