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“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
— Francis Bacon
“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.”
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster”
— David Hume
“The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.”
— Junius
“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
“Peace is not the product of terror or fear peace is not the silence of cemeteries”
— Oscar Romero
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
— Elie Wiesel
“A people without knowledge of their past history origin and culture is like a tree without roots”
— Ngugi wa Thiongo
“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings we pay ourselves the highest tribute”
— Thurgood Marshall
“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth.”
— Frederick Douglass
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“How can we win when we were never meant to be in the game”
— Kimberly Jones
“Freedom by definition is people realizing that they are their own leaders”
— Diane Nash
“The trouble is that once you see it you cannot unsee it and once you have seen it keeping quiet saying nothing becomes as political an act as speaking out”
— Arundhati Roy
“Washing ones hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful”
— Paulo Freire
“Civil disobedience is not our problem our problem is civil obedience”
— Howard Zinn
“You cannot be neutral on a moving train”
“You would not abandon ship in a storm just because you could not control the winds”
— Thomas More
“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud”
— Sophocles
“Peace cannot exist without justice justice cannot exist without fairness fairness cannot exist without development”
— Rigoberta Menchu
“Equal rights for all special privileges for none”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses”
— Heraclitus
“Struggle is a never ending process freedom is never really won you earn it and win it in every generation”
— Coretta Scott King
“When those who have power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you whether you are dark-skinned old disabled female or speak with a different accent or dialect than theirs when someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you are not in it there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium”
— Adrienne Rich
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good men should look on and do nothing”
— John Stuart Mill
“Remember you are all people and all people are you”
— Joy Harjo
“We have not ended racial caste in America we have merely redesigned it”
— Michelle Alexander
“True wealth is not measured in money or status or power it is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire”
— Cesar Chavez
“Liberty means responsibility that is why most men dread it”
— George Bernard Shaw
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you”
— Octavia Butler
“Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation”
— Mary Robinson
“We live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“There is no justice without love and there is no love without justice”
— James Cone
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about the progress and prosperity for our community”
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out”
— Vaclav Havel
“I was only a young girl when I realized the grave injustice of taking peoples land and culture”
— Zitkala-Sa
“I have come to you tonite to say that the time for waiting has passed that the time for action is now”
— Sonia Sanchez
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity”
— Nelson Mandela
“We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers”
— Bayard Rustin
“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children”
— Sitting Bull
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
— Mencius
“Collective liberation is the path to individual freedom”
— Patrisse Cullors
“Justice is not only about the right way to distribute things it is also about the right way to value things”
— Michael Sandel
“I would hope that a wise person with the richness of experiences would reach a better conclusion”
— Sonia Sotomayor
“There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.”
— Joseph Addison
“Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the war on drugs”
“It is not our differences that divide us it is our inability to recognize accept and celebrate those differences”
— Audre Lorde
“Justice is not just the absence of oppression it is the presence of opportunity”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“The welfare of the people is the ultimate law”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare does not make a corporation a terrorist”
— Winona LaDuke
“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt”
— Bertrand Russell
“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”
— Aristotle
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform”
— Ban Ki-moon
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself”
— Albert Camus
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
— James Baldwin
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come”
— Victor Hugo
“The banality of evil is the most terrifying aspect of our modern world”
— Hannah Arendt
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public”
— Cornel West
“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they do not have any”
— Alice Walker
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot accept”
— Angela Davis
“Justice is never served by turning the other into a scapegoat”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”
— Harriet Tubman
“The face of the other calls me to justice”
— Emmanuel Levinas
“Justice is what love looks like in public”
“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance we ought morally to do it”
— Peter Singer
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”
— Immanuel Kant
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them”
— Assata Shakur
“Who will guard the guardians themselves”
— Juvenal
“Nobody is free until everybody is free”
— Fannie Lou Hamer
“If we cannot see a problem we cannot fix a problem”
— Kimberle Crenshaw
“Your silence will not protect you”
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
— Unknown
“You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution”
— Fred Hampton
“I have learned over the years that when ones mind is made up this diminishes fear”
— Rosa Parks
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law”
— Montesquieu
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
— Voltaire
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters”
— Epictetus
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
“Laws are like spiders webs which stand firm when any light yielding object falls upon them while a weightier thing breaks through and escapes”
— Solon
“Justice is not to be taken by storm she is to be wooed by slow advances”
— Benjamin Cardozo
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart”
“A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.”
— Seneca the Younger
“Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The racial contract is the truth behind the social contract”
— Charles Mills
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil”
“If there is no struggle there is no progress”
“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights the source of humanity and the mother of truth”
— Liu Xiaobo
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
“Freedom is never given it is won”
— A. Philip Randolph
“The genius of the Constitution rests in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems”
— William Brennan
“Understanding the past is essential for building a just future”
— Nikole Hannah-Jones
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality”
— bell hooks
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them”
— Ida B. Wells
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves”
— Confucius
“The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.”
— Terence
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.”
— Socrates
“We are the ones we have been waiting for”
— June Jordan
“There is one safeguard known generally to the wise which is an advantage and security to all especially to democracies what is it distrust”
— Demosthenes
“Human rights are not only violated by terrorism repression or assassination but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities”
— Pope Francis
“Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress them there neither persons nor property will be safe”
“When we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope”
— Wangari Maathai
“Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws from within.”
— Hermann Hesse
“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
— Edmund Burke
“In nature nothing exists alone”
— Rachel Carson
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
— Adam Smith
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
— George Washington
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community”
— Aldo Leopold
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil not to speak is to speak not to act is to act”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Overcoming of anger is the basis of justice, and patience its proof.”
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders it is good to remember that the planet is carrying you”
— Vandana Shiva
“Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”
— Plato
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
— Theodore Parker
“We as women must stand up and speak truth we must stand up and vote”
— Dolores Huerta
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer”
“Man is unjust, but God is just; and justice finally triumphs.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.”
“You wanna fly you got to give up the stuff that weighs you down”
— Toni Morrison
“The longest way must have its close the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“We hold our heads high despite the price we have paid because freedom is priceless”
— Lech Walesa
“At his best man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst”
“When the legends die the dreams end there is no more greatness”
— Tecumseh
“Do not be unjust to others and you will not be a slave to injustice yourself.”
“If they do not give you a seat at the table bring a folding chair”
— Shirley Chisholm
“Extreme justice is often injustice.”
— Jean Racine
“The powers that be are not simply people they are structures systems and institutions”
— Walter Wink
“Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history is mans original virtue”
— Oscar Wilde
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool”
— Chinua Achebe
“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless there is too much work to do”
— Dorothy Day
“We must center the voices of those most impacted by injustice”
— Alicia Garza
“The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“One of the finest things about being an Indian is that people are always interested in you and your plight”
— Vine Deloria Jr.
“You are never too small to make a difference”
— Greta Thunberg
“Utopia is on the horizon when I walk two steps it takes two steps back I walk ten steps and it is ten steps further away what is utopia for it is for walking”
— Eduardo Galeano
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“The foundation of justice is good faith.”
“Every moment is an organizing opportunity every person a potential activist every minute a chance to change the world”
“The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.”
— Solomon
“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction”
“When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.”
— Thucydides
“We are each others harvest we are each others business we are each others magnitude and bond”
— Gwendolyn Brooks
“I am invisible understand simply because people refuse to see me”
— Ralph Ellison
“Our struggle is not about the right to pray in school it is about the right to pray at all”
— Bernice King
“The opposite of poverty is not wealth the opposite of poverty is justice”
— Bryan Stevenson
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you”
— Pericles
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants”
— Louis Brandeis
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else”
— Clarence Darrow
“The only real prison is fear and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
“In civilized life law floats in a sea of ethics”
— Earl Warren
“Do not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it because what the world needs is people who have come alive”
— Howard Thurman
“We do not need to reinvent human rights we need to implement them”
— Kofi Annan
“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
— George Orwell
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to people”
— Simone Weil
“Prisons do not disappear social problems they disappear human beings”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another”
— Charles Dickens
“The secret of our success is that we never never give up”
— Wilma Mankiller
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line”
— W.E.B. Du Bois
“An unjust law is no law at all”
— Augustine of Hippo
“One child one teacher one book one pen can change the world”
— Malala Yousafzai
“A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family”
— Hugo Grotius
“To will oneself free is also to will others free”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
— Jose Marti
“Each generation must discover its mission fulfill it or betray it”
— Frantz Fanon
“We love because it is the only true adventure”
— Nikki Giovanni
“Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.”
“Justice is an experience of the impossible”
— Jacques Derrida
“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from political controversy”
— Robert Jackson
“Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
“Saving our planet lifting people out of poverty advancing economic growth these are one and the same fight”
“It is not power that corrupts but fear fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it”
— Aung San
“He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?”
— Lord Byron
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest”
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
— Blaise Pascal
“To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay, right or justice.”
“Truth is powerful and it prevails”
— Sojourner Truth
“Where there is no property there is no injustice.”
— John Locke
“If we do not maintain justice justice will not maintain us”
“We win justice not by meeting impossible standards but by refusing to let them define us”
— Stacey Abrams
“We have to improve life not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system but for the people who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity”
— Dorothy Height
“The galaxy of practice and policy that maintains racial hierarchy is not a matter of intent but of architecture”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again”
— Maya Angelou
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there”
— Rumi
“They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine”
— Lucille Clifton
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control”
— Martha Nussbaum
“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people”
— Felix Frankfurter
“If there is a book you want to read but it has not been written yet then you must write it”
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Justice is truth in action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government”
— Thomas Paine
“In a free society some are guilty but all are responsible”
— Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
“I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
“Justice delayed is justice denied.”
— William Ewart Gladstone
“Real change enduring change happens one step at a time”
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
“History is not made by those who wait for permission”
— Bree Newsome
“Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.”
— Justinian I
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”
“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”
— John Muir
“The only thing rising faster than sea levels is awareness”
— Naomi Klein
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
“Human rights is a universal standard it is a component of every religion and every civilization”
— Shirin Ebadi
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
“Do your little bit of good where you are it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world”
— Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”
— Marcus Aurelius
“What I treasure most in life is being able to dream about the day when the oppressed and the exploited can sit together as equals”
“Another world is not only possible she is on her way on a quiet day I can hear her breathing”
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future because unless you believe that the future can be better you are unlikely to step up”
— Noam Chomsky
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you cannot help them at least do not hurt them”
— Dalai Lama
“The sword of justice has no scabbard.”
— Joseph de Maistre
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Justice cannot be for one side alone but must be for both”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”
“To live is to choose but to choose well you must know who you are and what you stand for”
“Hatred does not cease by hatred but only by love this is the eternal rule”
— Buddha
“No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening each time for the first time for the only time”
“We are not only constituted by our relations but also dispossessed by them”
— Judith Butler
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect”
— Mark Twain
“A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky”
— Crazy Horse
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you”
— Wendell Berry
“The earth does not belong to us we belong to the earth”
— Chief Seattle
“Life is not what you alone make it life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it”
— Yuri Kochiyama
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“When you see something that is not right not fair not just you have to speak up you have to do something”
— John Lewis
“There is infinite hope just not for us”
— Franz Kafka
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The power to tax involves the power to destroy”
— John Marshall
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions”
— John Rawls
“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love”
— William Sloane Coffin
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high into that heaven of freedom my father let my country awake”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there no constitution no law no court can save it”
— Learned Hand
“In a consumer society contentment is a radical proposition”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
“When we fight for justice we fight for all communities”
“The truth will set you free but first it will make you angry”
— Gloria Steinem
“Compassion is a verb”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence.”
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”
“What the people want is very simple they want an America as good as its promise”
— Barbara Jordan
“Until the lions have their own historians the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny”
— Wole Soyinka
“The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it and then dismantle it”
— Ibram X. Kendi
“A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killers hand”
— Seneca
“If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.”
— Democritus
“When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply Ours”
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done”
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”
— William Blackstone
“Justice is not something that comes to those who wait it must be demanded and fought for”
— Elizabeth Warren
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread”
— Richard Wright
“The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression”
“An animal has its being in its world but the human being stands in the world”
— Martin Buber
“Democracy has to be born anew every generation and education is its midwife”
— John Dewey
“Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other peoples concerns”
“Justice demands integrity it demands that one act in ways consistent with what one knows is right”
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”
— Langston Hughes
“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals”
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”
— Wendell Phillips
“The foundation of justice is good faith”
— Cicero
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage”
— Lao Tzu
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise”
— Tacitus
“My humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together”
— Desmond Tutu
“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.”
“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness”
“The time is always right to do what is right”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power”
“Transform yourself to transform the world”
— Grace Lee Boggs
“Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice”
— Baruch Spinoza
“It is the little things citizens do that will make the difference”
“I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions but really I am neither for nor against institutions what I am after is a new beginning”
— Walt Whitman
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison”
“The question is not can they reason nor can they talk but can they suffer”
— Jeremy Bentham
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding yourself in the ranks of the insane”
“Poverty is not just a lack of money it is not having the capability to realize ones full potential as a human being”
— Amartya Sen
“Compassion is the basis of all morality, but justice is the basis of all society.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Hope will never be silent”
— Harvey Milk
“If you are silent about your pain they will kill you and say you enjoyed it”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Give light and people will find the way”
— Ella Baker
“I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually”
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children”
“Empowerment through empathy is the key to healing communities”
— Tarana Burke
“The foundations of justice are that no one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.”
“I too sing America”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the members are poor and miserable”
“Deeds not words”
— Emmeline Pankhurst
“The heartbeat of racism is denial the heartbeat of antiracism is confession”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor”
“To exist humanly is to name the world to change it”
“Justice requires not merely that individuals be treated fairly but that social structures be fair”
— Iris Marion Young
“If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise we do not believe in it at all”
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