Quotes About Justice

What, then, can we do? We must return to the moral and spiritual foundations of our country and grapple with the consequences of our original sin.

White fragility is a will to innocence that serves to bury the violence it sits on top off.

Wolf acknowledged that "a huge, overwhelming segment of America does not really give a damn what cops do in the course of maintaining order because they assume (probably correctly) that abuse at the hands of the police will never happen to them.

As long as the cops keep people away from my door, they have my blessing handling 'the thugs' in whatever way they see fit.

The idolatry of whiteness and the cloak of innocence that shields it can only be quenched by love, but not merely, or even primarily, a private, personal notion of love, but a public expression of love that holds us all accountable. Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

The revolutionary cries of Black Lives Matter rest upon a simple yet poignant foundation: that Black lives, which haven't mattered, should matter, and that we must reform the criminal justice system, greatly change if not abolish the police, and grapple with systemic racism.

in a true democracy, things are often messy, ...you often don't get what you want or deserve immediately, and... you have to constantly engage, protest, resist, and negotiate.

one need not be religious at all to believe that we should be willing to give what we seek: charitable interpretations of behavior and a willingness to offer just appraisals of conduct with an eye toward fairness.

If justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public, then patience is what mercy sounds like out loud, and forgiveness is the accent with which grace speaks.

As we watched more carefully, we began to notice who was marching. The protesters included some

Instead, we are two symbols in a 400-year-old battle of guilt and innocence.

Martin Luther King, Jr. hoped for a color-blind society, but only as oppression and racism were destroyed.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

The failure to see color only benefits white America. A world without color is a world without racial debt.

We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum.

The status quo always favors neutrality which in truth is never neutral at all but supports those who stand against change.

And there is a paradox that many of you refuse to see: to get to a point where race won't make a difference, we have to wrestle, first, with the difference that race makes.

Trump is missing the point when he says that Kaepernick should "find a country that works better for him." Instead, Kaepernick believes so deeply in this country that he is willing to offer correction rather than abandon the nation—and to donate a million dollars in support of racial justice causes.

What I ask my white students to do, and what I ask of you, my dear friends, is to try, the best you can, to surrender your innocence, to reject the willful denial of history and to live fully in our complicated present with all of the discomfort it brings. Many

Isn't it time to get rid of crapitalism? Isn't it time for a rational, sane world where the people are actually in charge, and the smartest people run everything on behalf of the Commonwealth?

Von der Mühll devotes almost all his time to the case, trying not to be overly menacing or judgmental. "I can't excuse that, but I can understand," is a phrase the detective is fond of saying.

So there had better be a good damned reason for [war], because even if it is good, it is still damned.

You priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing, and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had it right, too – it is a false peace to be over-forgiving.