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Quotes About Justice

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
~ Chinua Achebe
but hate rarely looks at the truth.
~ Chip Davis
White job applicants who had served jail time for a felony were more likely to receive a callback than were Black applicants with impeccable records.
~ Chip Heath
North Carolina State Hospital Association, said: "An awful lot of people for a long time have had their heads in the sand on this issue, and it's time to do the right thing. It's as simple as that.
~ Chip Heath
The fates are cruel," Bheeshma whispered, "and they've been crueler than usual to you. But the sins you committed in ignorance are not your fault." "I'll still have to pay for them," Karna said. "Isn't that how karma works? Look at what happened to Pandu, who killed a sage by accident, thinking him to be a wild deer. He had to bear the consequences of it for the rest of his life.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
If you want to stand up against wrongdoing, if you want to bring about change, do it in a way that doesn't bruise a man's pride. You'll have a better chance of success.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
O king of Ayodhya, you know I'm innocent, and yet, unfairly, you're asking me to step into the fire. You offer me a tempting prize indeed—to live in happiness with you and my children. But I must refuse. Because if I do what you demand, society will use my action forever after to judge other women. Even when they aren't guilty, the burden of proving their innocence will fall on them. And society will say
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Wait for a man to avenge your honour and you'll wait forever.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
For the sake of my daughters in the centuries to come, I must now stand up against this unjust action you are asking of me.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
And that is why, O King Ram, I must reject your kind offer to allow me to prove my innocence again. Because this is one of those times when a woman must stand up and say, No more!
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Tunggu seorang laki-laki membalaskan dendam untukmu, dan kau akan menunggu selamanya. -Srikandi
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Seorang pahlawan tetap pahlawan, tidak peduli apa kastanya. Kemampuan lebih penting daripada kelahiran yang kebetulan." -Duryodana
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Seorang pahlawan tetap pahlawan, tidak peduli apa kastanya. Kemampuan lebih penting daripada kelahiran yang kebetulan. -Duryodana
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Remember that, little sister: wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
one time she heard a policeman giving a belting to teenagers who'd been bullying the boy. Part of her wished someone would do that for her son. When Brendan reached high school age he attended Morwell Technical College, a fifteen-
~ Chloe Hooper
Solar plexus is the center of both positive and negative lower emotions: Positive lower emotions include ambition, daringness, courage, perseverance, strength, righteous indignation, justice and fairness; Negative lower emotions include anger, irritation, hate, envy, greed, destructiveness, violence, cruelty, resentment, worry, anxiety, tension, fear, selfishness, aggressiveness, abrasiveness, addiction, etc.
~ Choa Kok Sui
Remember always that freedom, love, kindness, honour, justice and truth are never to be taken for granted--but worked at, struggled with and fought for, at whatever cost. For it is this that makes us human and builds a bridge to our true nature, which is spirit.
~ Chris Abani
Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.
~ Chris Cleave
How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?
~ Chris Cleave
I know the answer to the question now, by the way: why bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people. It came from my inner editor, the part of me that forces the wordy writer in me to dump ninety percent of all modifiers: Ask both questions again, minus the adjectives. "Why do things happen to people?" Just because.
~ Chris Crutcher
I figure if those things were in God's jurisdiction, he'd do something different about them. But they aren't. Those are in our jurisdiction.
~ Chris Crutcher
As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid.
~ Chris Crutcher