Justice Quotes

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

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"Nomadic subjects are committed to social change and justice."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice"
Law, John
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"Care is political; the personal is never merely private."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Justice requires attending to the particular and the embodied."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The practice of care is the practice of justice."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Justice requires we hear the voices of the silenced."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The excluded middles and silenced voices must be brought back into the picture of what matters."
Barad, Karen
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"Feminist concerns must be central to physics and philosophy of science."
Barad, Karen
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"We must be attentive to what is excluded or made invisible by our systems of representation."
Barad, Karen
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"We cannot separate the study of nature from the study of power, politics, and ethics."
Barad, Karen
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"The intra-actions through which the world becomes are always already entangled with questions of justice."
Barad, Karen
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"We must attend to the excluded possibilities, the paths not taken, the mattering that has been silenced."
Barad, Karen
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"The pursuit of certainty in science has often come at the cost of erasing otherness and difference."
Barad, Karen
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"The cuts that constitute phenomena are not innocent; they distribute agency and responsibility in particular ways."
Barad, Karen
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"The excluded and the marginalized must be brought back into the calculus of what matters and what can be."
Barad, Karen
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"We must interrogate the naturalization of social categories."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Responsibility cannot be outsourced or delegated away."
Haraway, Donna
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"We must become response-able to what we have made and unmade."
Haraway, Donna
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"Ethics demands we stay in the mess with all its complications."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are all response-able to the living and the dead."
Haraway, Donna
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"Justice requires us to sit with the discomfort of past wrongs."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Justice requires us to imagine systems that do not yet exist."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Ethics must be grounded in the capacity to affect and be affected by others."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The politics of location means understanding how our particular positions shape our perspectives."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The question of what we owe to others is fundamental to ethics."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Ethics emerges from the capacity to recognize and honor difference."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice rushed is justice perverted."
Law, John
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"The law exists to protect the weak from the tyranny of the strong."
Law, John
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"A just society is built on the principles of fair exchange and mutual respect."
Law, John
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"The measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members."
Law, John