Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"We need a new ethic—one that extends the rights of the individual to the rest of nature."Rachel Carson
"I think every person is responsible for making the world better."Grace Hopper
"Plant yourself on the side of righteousness and justice."George Washington Carver
"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer."George Washington Carver
"Justice is the foundation of a peaceful society."George Washington Carver
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Wright Brothers
"Science is democratic at its core—it doesn't care who asks the question."Jocelyn Bell Burnell
"I believe that science is the most democratic human endeavor we have."Jocelyn Bell Burnell
"I believe that women's contributions to science have been systematically undervalued."Jocelyn Bell Burnell
"I believe that science is a powerful tool for social justice."Jocelyn Bell Burnell
"I believe that science belongs to humanity, not to any gender or nationality."Jocelyn Bell Burnell
"I have always believed that the military was as much a place for women as for men, so long as you could do the job."Grace Hopper
"I believe that women are just as capable as men at solving complex problems."Grace Hopper
"The world needs more women in science and technology."Grace Hopper
"Justice in science means ensuring that credit goes to those who did the work."Vera Rubin
"The punishment may well have been something well deserved. But nevertheless, it was horribly unjust."Alan Turing
"Justice is not served by complacency."Wright Brothers
"The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials."Rachel Carson
"We are witnessing the birth of a new morality, one in which the rights of nature are finally recognized as equal to human rights."Rachel Carson
"If we destroy the web of life, we destroy ourselves, for we are the web of life."Rachel Carson
"No individual has any right in this Christian community to hoard."George Washington Carver
"Justice demands that all observations be treated with equal respect."Gregor Mendel
"The justice of nature is expressed through its unchanging laws."Gregor Mendel
"Justice in science demands that we report what we find, not what we wish to find."Gregor Mendel
"Women should be able to do anything men can do."Hedy Lamarr
"I believe in fighting for what's right."Hedy Lamarr
"What helps people, helps business. And in the end, we will only truly succeed when we serve the greater good."Alexander Graham Bell
"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out without contributing something back to the world in which he lived."George Washington Carver
"How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?"Rachel Carson
"Women are capable of doing anything that men can do."Hedy Lamarr