Justice Quotes

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

27299 quotes

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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Law, John
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty."
Law, John
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"Globalization requires us to develop new forms of solidarity across difference."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The naturalization of hierarchies serves the interests of the powerful."
Braidotti, Rosi
B
"The question of who gets to count as human is fundamentally political."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We must resist the reduction of complex beings to simple categories."
Braidotti, Rosi
B
"Justice requires us to attend to the particularities of specific contexts and situated perspectives."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Food is never just food; it is always bound up with land, labor, and life."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The question of justice cannot be separated from the question of how we order the world."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To perform normalcy is to exclude the abnormal, and we must ask at what cost."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Care work is invisible labor, and making it visible is a first step toward justice."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To practice care is to practice a form of justice that is always local, always particular, always embodied."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To enact a reality is to exclude other realities, and we must ask who pays the price of exclusion."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Ethical and political questions cannot be separated from epistemological and ontological ones."
Barad, Karen
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"Accountability requires us to recognize our implication in the world and our responsibility for our choices."
Barad, Karen
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"Ethics is not something added to ontology after the fact; it is an integral part of what it means to be in the world."
Barad, Karen
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"Exclusions performed in the name of knowledge are themselves political effects that demand scrutiny."
Barad, Karen
B
"We must think carefully about the exclusions that our knowledge practices enact and the responsibilities this entails."
Barad, Karen
B
"Ethics demands that we attend to the exclusions performed by our knowledge practices and take responsibility for them."
Barad, Karen
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"The question of responsibility cannot be separated from the question of what kinds of realities our practices enact."
Barad, Karen
B
"Exclusions and inclusions are not merely discursive; they have material effects on which worlds come into being."
Barad, Karen
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"Acceleration creates winners and losers on an unprecedented scale."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The good society makes room for what cannot be commodified."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Feminist objectivity means taking responsibility for what we learn."
Haraway, Donna
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"Survival is insufficient; we must demand joy and justice."
Haraway, Donna
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"Solidarity is not about sameness; it is about commitment to shared struggle."
Haraway, Donna
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"Justice requires that we attend to the particular and the concrete."
Haraway, Donna
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"Justice is not an abstract principle; it is lived in everyday practices."
Haraway, Donna
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"Justice requires that we attend to the voices of those excluded from power."
Haraway, Donna
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"Justice requires us to think beyond the human and include all living beings."
Braidotti, Rosi