Quotes About Justice

Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.

But the true measure of a society's freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists.

I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

But even when the principle of equal treatment was betrayed, American leaders in every era have emphatically affirmed it, not so much out of hypocrisy as out of aspiration. Indeed, for those who were devoted to justice, the persistence of inequality was precisely what made equality before the law so imperative.

Pero si es el resultado final de todo esto, y sé que hay una elevada probabilidad de que así sea, decidí hace tiempo que puedo aguantar lo que sea. Lo único que no puedo aguantar es saber que no hice nada.»

Sono consapevole delle ritorsioni a cui mi espongo […] eppure potrò ritenermi soddisfatto nel momento in cui la commistione di leggi segrete, le grazie iniquamente distribuite e gli incontrastabili poteri esecutivi che dominano il mondo che amo verranno a galla, anche solo per un istante».

in the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure.

assurances that surveillance is only targeted at those who "have done something wrong" should provide little comfort, since a state will reflexively view any challenge to its power as wrongdoing. *

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." After

The true measure of a society´s freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats its good loyalists. We shouldn´t have to be faithful loyalists of the powerful to be free from state surveillance.

Equally nonsensical was the notion that Snowden would try to save himself by giving away surveillance secrets. He had dismantled his life and risked a future in prison to tell the world about a clandestine surveillance system he believed must be stopped.

Justice, then, must function at both levels: personal and communal. It must flow in both directions: from one individual to another and from the community as a whole to each individual.

no man is above the law and that includes the president of the United States

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." 

It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.

Feminism is memory.

Our grief is not a cry for war. "That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren't here. They'll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to catch the criminals, but only people who weren't in New York will want to bomb another country and repeat what happened here.