Justice Quotes

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

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"Social acceleration produces winners and losers, efficiency and suffering."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The good society would be organized around the principle of temporal autonomy for all."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Justice begins with self-examination and the willingness to challenge our own complicity in systems of oppression."
hooks, bell
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"Patriarchy is a system, not men."
Rich, Adrienne
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"The personal is the political, and the political is the personal."
Rich, Adrienne
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"A society is measured by how it treats those it renders invisible."
Rich, Adrienne
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"To refuse complicity is the beginning of resistance."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo."
Davis, Angela
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"Racism, militarism, and poverty are interconnected."
Davis, Angela
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"We cannot afford to be complacent about injustice."
Davis, Angela
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"Prisons reflect the racism of society."
Davis, Angela
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"The prison industrial complex is built on racism and exploitation."
Davis, Angela
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but we must persist."
Davis, Angela
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"We must work toward a world free from exploitation."
Davis, Angela
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"Silence perpetuates injustice; speech is necessary."
Wittig, Monique
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"The struggle for language is the struggle for existence."
Wittig, Monique
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"Systems of oppression depend on silence and invisibility."
Wittig, Monique
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"To name injustice is to begin undoing it."
Wittig, Monique
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"Silence is complicity; speech is responsibility."
Wittig, Monique
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"The struggle against invisibility is a struggle for humanity."
Wittig, Monique
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"To be silenced is to be rendered non-existent."
Wittig, Monique
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"Justice requires not just individual rights, but social arrangements that enable all to participate as equals."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Social justice requires attention to both distribution and recognition."
Fraser, Nancy
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"We cannot separate material injustice from cultural disrespect."
Fraser, Nancy
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"We need frameworks that can address multiple dimensions of injustice simultaneously."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Justice is not charity but a matter of right and standing."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Recognition struggles are not secondary to economic struggles but equally fundamental."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Status inequality harms not just the subordinated but the whole society."
Fraser, Nancy
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"We are all responsible for the worlds we bring into being."
Latour, Bruno
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"Responsibility emerges from our entanglement with multiple networks."
Latour, Bruno