Justice Quotes

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

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"Justice requires us to acknowledge and respect difference."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Justice requires us to go beyond existing categories and concepts."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Justice is not a fixed goal but an ongoing process."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Exclusions and erasures are as constitutive as inclusions."
Barad, Karen
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"We are answerable to what we exclude."
Barad, Karen
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"We must engage in practices that honor what is silenced."
Barad, Karen
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"We are always already complicit in the systems we critique, and this is not a reason for despair but for continued engagement."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The margins are not peripheral; they are sites of critical insight and creative possibility."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We are all implicated in systems of power; this knowledge should humble us."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Justice requires us to attend to the particular while working toward the general."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We must create frameworks for understanding that center marginalized voices and perspectives."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Normativity operates through what remains unsaid and invisible."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The archive is a battlefield where meanings are contested."
Puar, Jasbir
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"We are all caught in the contradictions of our own implication."
Puar, Jasbir
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"We must learn to live with the contradictions of our own positions."
Puar, Jasbir
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"Diversity is not an add-on; it is foundational."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Justice requires us to see what we have been trained not to see."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The just society is built by those willing to be uncomfortable."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Feminism is about making a better world for ourselves and our kin."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are responsible for our narratives."
Haraway, Donna
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"Responsibility requires accounting for what we do and make."
Haraway, Donna
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"Feminist science is committed to accountability."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are all implicated in systems of harm; complicity is inescapable."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are responsible creatures, whether we acknowledge it or not."
Haraway, Donna
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"We must resist the naturalization of social categories."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We are all implicated in systems of power. The question is how we respond."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The archive is never neutral; it is always a political decision."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Memory is a form of activism."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The posthuman condition requires new forms of accountability."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The posthuman subject is accountable to multiple others."
Braidotti, Rosi