Justice Quotes

"Our strategy is not one of simple retaliation or return."

"Women's anger has long been recognized as legitimate only when it conforms to male advantage."

"We must work to transform the world so that it becomes a place where all people can live fully human lives."

"The work of justice is slow, but it is sacred work."

"We are all interconnected; no one is free until everyone is free."

"If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you at night."

"Violence is when we accept things the way they are."

"We need to think about accountability on every level of society."

"We are all implicated in systems of injustice."

"We cannot achieve justice without addressing the root causes of oppression."

"The liberation of women is inseparable from liberation overall."

"Time itself is a dimension of justice."

"Violence is accomplished through the selective production of grievability."

"To make a life livable, we must make certain lives grievable."

"Some lives are marked as lives, others are not."

"The question of who counts as human requires a political answer."

"We must learn to live with the impossibility of perfect justice."

"Precarity is not equally distributed across populations."

"Some bodies are made to appear more vulnerable than others."

"The question of recognition is a question of justice."

"We must contest the frames that determine whose lives count as grievable."

"To do justice to the other is to allow them to exceed our categories."

"Justice requires that we attend to what exceeds legal frameworks."

"The question of who deserves protection is a political one."

"Some lives are treated as disposable, and that is a political decision."

"To escape oppression, one must first name it."

"The universal subject is a myth designed to exclude."

"The personal experience of oppression is universal knowledge."

"We are all responsible for the world we create through our associations and alliances."

"We are all implicated in the networks that sustain our existence; there is no escape from responsibility."