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Quotes About Justice

We hold demonstrations and civil wars when inequities are discovered.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?' 'Somebody ought to be.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift
~ Cathleen Falsani
Whatever you do, good or bad, sorry or not, you get punished, darling. Life kicks you in the balls.
~ Cathleen Schine
What worried him most was something Dietrich had mentioned observing during his visit to America—the way Americans treated Negroes. Not so different in some ways than German citizens treated Jews at the beginning. If Americans treat our citizens in such a way, will they step up to the plate to protect their own or the world's Jews? He wasn't sure.
~ Cathy Gohlke
That is what our Fuhrer maintains- that some are more worthy of life than others. Indeed, he asserts that an elite few in the world are worthy of life and procreation. Ask yourself, if you do not believe that to be true why is it not? If this child is not able to contribute to society in the same way you and I are able, does it make her less valuable? How do you know?
~ Cathy Gohlke
So tell the people that," he said. "The facts can all be validated through expanded thinking and concern for truth. The point is people need to know about mind control. They need to know what is happening to this country's education, mental health, and justice systems. They need to know what the New World Order agenda is about before NAFTA makes economic slaves of all of us. Armed with truth, there is no way to lose.
~ Cathy O'Brien
Deplorable situations were becoming commonplace in America these days4, jolting many people from their comfort zones. The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, and formerly middle class citizens were plummeting toward third world poverty level. Justice was bought and sold while government corruption reigned supreme. Crime escalated out of control while the CIA's booming cocaine, crack, and heroin industries 5 turned our street corners into a blood bath.
~ Cathy O'Brien
Customs Internal Affairs knew everything I knew about Thornburgh, Bush, Noriega, Jose Busto, Jimmy Buffet, the Caribbean branch of CIA drug ops, the arming of Nicaragua's Contras, and the destabilization of the Middle East through the arming of Afghanistan and Iraq. Mark and I knew we had strong support, and friends as dedicated as we are to dismantling the criminal corruption that was eroding the soul of America.
~ Cathy O'Brien
Already, "woke" is a hashtag that's now mocked, when being awake is not a singular revelation but a long-term commitment fueled by constant reevaluation.
~ Cathy Park Hong
I'd rather be indebted than be the kind of white man who thinks the world owes him, because to live an ethical life is to be held accountable to history.
~ Cathy Park Hong
To live an ethical life is to be held accountable for history.
~ Cathy Park Hong
For to be aware of history, they would be forced to be held accountable. And rather than face that shame, they'd rather, by any means necessary, maintain their innocence.
~ Cathy Park Hong
Asians are always mistaken for other Asians, but the least we can do to honor the dead is to ensure they're never mistaken for anyone else again.
~ Cathy Park Hong
Often the women are burned, so that the death can be passed off as an accident. The killer usually becomes a local hero: a man who has done what was necessary to clear his family name.
~ Geraldine Brooks
the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against "honor" killings but also against forced marriages and the pernicious way gossip is used in small communities to control the behavior of women and girls.
~ Geraldine Brooks
I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.
~ Geraldine Brooks
If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones who pay to right it?
~ Geraldine Brooks
I mean, not everything has to be about race, does
~ Geraldine Brooks
Ta-Nehisi Coates
~ Geraldine Brooks
We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It's another war, I think.
~ Geraldine Brooks
One program that deplored the high incidence of wife beating drew hundreds of letters from angry men, who insisted that beating their wives was a God-given right.
~ Geraldine Brooks
You cannot right injustice by injustice.
~ Geraldine Brooks
That is the world as it is. If you do not like it, join me in attemping to change it.
~ Geraldine Brooks