Justice Quotes - Page 33

• My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.

  Lena Dunham

  Children, Hero, Independent

  "Lena Dunham Opens Up About Her New Book, Not That Kind of Girl, and What She's Learned From Her Sister". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2014.

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• I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.

  Assata Shakur

  People, Trying, Care

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• The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

  Assata Shakur

  United States, Racist, Definitions

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• I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, Air, People

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• If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a paddle. It will be devastating for people worldwide who believe in justice.

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, People, Succeed

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• The U.S. doesn't recognize the laws of Cuba. They can kidnap anybody and bring them back to the States to face the so-called justice system. There's no telling what the U.S. government will do to me. I'm in constant danger; I guess I've gotten used to it.

  Assata Shakur

  Law, Government, Faces

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• My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.

  Marilyn Mosby

  Passion, Heart, Way Forward

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Important, Social

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• Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly life. Freedom as an absolute is simply an assertion of man's "right" to be his own god; this means a radical denial of God's law-order. "Freedom" thus is another name for the claim by man to divinity and autonomy. It means that man becomes his own absolute.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Mean, Godly, Men

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• What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Desire, Generations

  Source: facpub.stjohns.edu

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• I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

  Howard Zinn

  Color, People, Roles

  Source: facpub.stjohns.edu

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• God is always the upholder of justice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Children, Lows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

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• God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Practice, Population

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Names

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Firsts, Department

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Poet, Reason

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• [Ginsburg's] feminism was very sweeping and very ambitious and very consistent. Justice O'Connor had a more case-by-case, pragmatic approach to her feminism. They were not entirely the same, [but] I think that they shared the most important thing, which is the belief that they were worthy and that therefore other women were worthy.

  Linda Hirshman

  Thinking, Feminism, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was very pleased to get a Supreme Court justice suggesting a column, so I went and did a column about Beano. I went with my wife and another guy to a Mexican restaurant, which we thought would be the ultimate test for an antiflatulance product. There's a reason most of Mexico is located out of doors. And it worked. Several newspapers refused to run that column. But they did run advertisements for Beano.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Doors, Wife

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

  Rob Bell

  Restoration, Desperate

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• Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sad, Divine, Lost

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One”, p.11, Wildside Press LLC

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• For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

  Aristotle

  Sad, Mean, Example

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• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  Albert Camus

  Meaningful, Hope, Men

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• The big idea behind it was to somehow participate in the discussion about justice. What does it mean to be just to the others out there whose lives we do not think about. One of the answers I came up with was simply tell their stories.

  Teju Cole

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Mean, Laughing

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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