Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"Better never means better for everyone"Moira
"Everything you done to me, already done to you."Celie
"Hear me. Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."Judge Holden
"I am not your justification for existence."Offred
"We are for breeding purposes: we are two-legged wombs."Offred
"The supreme penalty of your crime is to live."Javert
"The law is a manifestation of God's will."Javert
"We are human beings but we have no rights"Offred
"Being invisible and without substance, to whom could I complain?"The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"Everything you done to me already done to you."Celie
"You are my warrant. You follow me as the truth follows justice."Judge Holden
"There is no honor in what you have done."Mariam
"I ain't ever done you no harm."Jim
"A nigger ain't got no rights nohow."Pap Finn
"Mercy belongs to the living; vengeance to the dead."Jean Valjean
"The cost of survival is often borne by the most vulnerable."The Narrator (omniscient)
"The price of transgression is paid by the innocent."The Narrator (omniscient)
"The law protects those with power and punishes those without."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Anything you done to us, already done to you."Celie
"They all broke the law. The law that needed to be broken."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Some wrongs cannot be righted by the law."The Narrator (omniscient)
"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical."Jean Valjean
"I want to be valued for what I can do, not what I am."Offred
"The ones we worked on, if we can use the word worked."Offred
"She had not considered herself capable of such cruelty."Briony Tallis
"By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you wife and handmaid"The Commander
"Justice is a luxury they could not afford."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."Marius Pontmercy
"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral."Marius Pontmercy
"I reckon a nigger ain't a human."Huckleberry Finn