Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

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"I believe that women can contribute equally to science if given the opportunity."
Marie Curie
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"I believe that every person deserves the opportunity to pursue their potential."
Marie Curie
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"Justice delayed is not just; it is merely postponed suffering."
Gupta, Akhil
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"Longing is a productive force; it drives us toward justice."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We must learn to listen to the voices that have been silenced."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The world is made by those who insist on their right to exist."
Muñoz, José Esteban
"I am not fighting for myself, but for humanity."
Nikola Tesla
"Animals whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equals."
Charles Darwin
"It is the business of the individual to search his own conscience as regards any acts of injustice or cruelty."
Charles Darwin
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"The scientist belongs to humanity, and science belongs to the world."
Marie Curie
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"We are all responsible for building a more just world through our work."
Marie Curie
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"We must ask: who gets to be grievable? Whose life is worthy of mourning?"
Puar, Jasbir
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"The nation demands we grieve some deaths but not others; this is an act of power."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The right to the city is a demand for belonging in spaces that exclude us."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The archive is a political practice; it decides who gets remembered."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The right to be human is a political demand, not a given."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The nation constructs some subjects as worthy of protection and others as disposable."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The right to be properly grieved is a demand for recognition and dignity."
Puar, Jasbir
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"Justice requires attending to what is lost."
Ahmed, Sara
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"We must attend to what is overlooked."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Racism shapes the world we inherit."
Ahmed, Sara
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"We are implicated in the violence we inherit."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Justice requires a different orientation."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Racism is about orientation, about who belongs."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Justice requires us to change our orientation."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Justice is about attending to what is lost."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice pursued is justice earned."
Gupta, Akhil
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"Justice is not what the law says, but what conscience demands."
Gupta, Akhil
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"Justice requires us to think beyond the categories that currently exist."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The question of difference is the question of justice."
Grosz, Elizabeth