Quotes About Redressing

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

What whites are now expected to think about race can be summarized as follows: Race is an insignificant matter and not a valid criterion for any purpose—except perhaps for redressing wrongs done to non-whites.

Affirmative action is about fairness, for redressing widespread unfairness. Conservatives

Politically progressive black people on the Left who are not nationalist, like myself, share a perspective that promotes the eradication of white supremacy, the de-centering of the West, redressing of biases, and commitment to affirming black self-determination. Yet we add to the critique of white Western imperialism a repudiation of patriarchy, a critique of capitalism, and a concern for interracial coalition building.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.