Justice Quotes

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

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"The law is a mirror reflecting the morality of a people."
Law, John
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"The law serves justice only when it is truly blind to power and privilege."
Law, John
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"Justice requires not just fair laws but fair enforcement and fair hearts."
Law, John
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"Feminist theory requires us to rethink the relationship between nature and culture"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We are responsible for the worlds we create through our practices"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The political is always present in the intimate"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The political is always embodied and material"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Critique is necessary but insufficient; we must also imagine alternatives"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The personal and political are inseparable"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Agential realism demands that we take responsibility for what we help bring into being."
Barad, Karen
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"We cannot escape responsibility by claiming objectivity."
Barad, Karen
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"We must attend to the excluded and the silenced in any knowledge claim."
Barad, Karen
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"Exclusions are never innocent—they always have political and ethical consequences."
Barad, Karen
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"Exclusion and inclusion are always at stake in knowledge practices."
Barad, Karen
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"We are always responsible for what we fail to see as much as for what we do see."
Barad, Karen
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"Exclusion and erasure are always effected through the apparatus of knowledge production."
Barad, Karen
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"Exclusion is a necessary but potentially violent dimension of any knowledge claim."
Barad, Karen
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"We are responsible for attending to what is silenced and excluded in knowledge production."
Barad, Karen
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"Exclusion and inclusion are not neutral but laden with ethical and political implications."
Barad, Karen
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"Diversity is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be navigated."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Justice is not blind; it must learn to see clearly and boldly."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Justice is the work of making the invisible visible and valued."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The Anthropocene is a naming that erases many complicities and responsibilities."
Haraway, Donna
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"Earthwide flourishing requires us to decolonize our thinking and our practices."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are all implicated in the systems of oppression we seek to resist."
Haraway, Donna
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"Reproduction is not a private matter but a fundamentally political one."
Haraway, Donna
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"Justice requires dismantling the networks that perpetuate inequality."
Callon, Michel
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"The measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members."
Callon, Michel
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"Corporeality is always already implicated in questions of justice and politics."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The foundation of justice is good faith."
Law, John