Quotes About Justice

If you intend to insist on justice in order to live a successful and happy life, you will not do so in this lifetime, on this planet.

It doesn't matter who's right but what's right.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

It was wonderful to receive from my President, the Freedom Award and to know that I am a member of the group most recently bought and sold with everybody's agreement, and the people who longed for freedom. When I accepted that award, I thought of all the people who had come from all over the world to find freedom in the United States. I accepted the award for African Americans, every slave who got off every boat, every European, and every Asian who came here searching for freedom.

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

feministas que se dejen de hablar mierda. Habrá una ley que otra que nos proteja, una puerta que otra que se nos abra. Pero en el día a día, una mujer sigue valiendo lo que siempre ha valido una mujer.

Volim da porazgovaram, od razgovora sve postane svjetlije i svježije, kao da se prozori na ku?i otvore... Nisam naro?ito pametan, niti mislim da je to važno, važnije je da je ?ovjek pravedan i da se ne truje ružnim mislima. Mu?no bi bilo živjeti obeshrabren, treba vidjeti i onu stranu koja nije protiv ?ovjeka.

pravda je pravo da u?inimo ono što mislimo da treba...

when people settle their accounts, guilt is easy to find, and justice is the right to do whatever we think must be done, and therefore justice can be anything.

Kad bi Bog kažnjavao za svako u?injeno zlo, ne bi na zemlji ostalo nijedno živo bi?e

Je li vlast od Boga? Ako nije, odakle joj pravo da nam sudi? Ako jest, kako može da pogriješi? Ako nije, sruši?emo je; ako jest, sluša?emo je. Ako nije od Boga, šta nas obavezuje da trpimo nepravde? Ako je od Boga, jesu li to nepravde, ili kazna zbog viših ciljeva. Ako nije, onda je nada mnom i nad tobom i nad svima nama izvršeno nasilje, i onda smo opet mi krivi što ga podnosimo.

nous n'allons pas ensevelir la dépouille de cet homme pour proclamer son innocence, nous ferons plus : nous sèmerons ces ossements en souvenir d'une injustice. Qu'il en germe ce que Dieu décidera.

Pravda je kao zdravlje, misliš o njoj kad je nema, i zaista je neodre?ena, ali je možda najviše želja da se udavi nepravda, a ona je vrlo odre?ena. Svaka nepravda je jednaka, a ?ovjeku se ?ini da je najve?a koja je njemu u?injena. A ako mu se ?ini, onda i jeste tako, jer se ne može misliti tu?om glavom.

No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

celebrate such meals as this with prisoners and others and not for them.

Cry out for justice in the name of those who suffer injustice.

In the old days of Take Back the Night, you could march with other women and feel that all the rapists of the world were small and powerless.

Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but . . .' By which they mean, 'I don't call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don't want to be held back because I'm a woman.

You must never be fearful when what you're doing is right.

Remember who you are." "The Sullivans have stolen from me, and I want back what's mine.

long as man "has the physical power, as well as the conventional" to treat a woman "like a play-thing or a slave," she'd written portentously to Sophia, "woman must wait until the lion shall lie down with the lamb, before she can hope to be the friend and companion of man.

hypocritical laws that made a woman pay for a man's crime. Why should women "receive the punishment due to the vices of so large a portion of the rest"?

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!