Quotes About Justice
A few months later Miss Mitten was killed by a milk van in Hobart, across the road from a cricket oval. To the twins there was hidden justice in the fact that the milk van had been reversing.
~ Arundhati Roy
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Is this Democracy or Demon Crazy?
~ Arundhati Roy
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The tired wisdom of knowing that what goes around eventually comes around.
~ Arundhati Roy
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I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
~ Arundhati Roy
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For the South African White minority, neo-liberalism is apartheid with a clean conscience, called Democracy.
~ Arundhati Roy
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There cannot be a more degrading system of social organisation than the caste system,' said Ambedkar. 'It is the system that deadens, paralyses and cripples the people from helpful activity.'19
~ Arundhati Roy
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Gandhi always said that he wanted to live like the poorest of the poor. The question is, can poverty be simulated? Poverty, after all, is not just a question of having no money or no possessions. Poverty is about having no power.
~ Arundhati Roy
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Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this,' Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. 'Our stomachs are graveyards.
~ Arundhati Roy
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Forse agli occhi di uno studioso di storia e conflitti umani è a questo che si sarebbe ridotto in realtà il piccolo corteo, visto in termini relativi: una fila di formiche che si allontanavano con qualche briciola caduta dalla tavola dei potenti.
~ Arundhati Roy
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It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
~ Assata Shakur
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I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
~ Assata Shakur
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i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth
~ Assata Shakur
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What kind of justice is this? Where the poor go to prison and the rich go free. Where witnesses are rented, bought, or bribed. Where people are tried not because of any criminal actions but because of their political beliefs.
~ Assata Shakur
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If you are deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
~ Assata Shakur
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I am about life. I'm gonna live as hard as i can and as full as i can until i die. And i'm not letting these parasites, these oppressors, these greedy racist swine make me kill my children in my mind, before they are even born.
~ Assata Shakur
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People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
~ Assata Shakur
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Do what is right, and do it now.
~ Atul Gawande
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The seemingly easiest and most sensible rule for a doctor to follow is: Always Fight. Always look for what more you could do. (...) But our fight is not always to do more. It is to do right by our patients, even though what is right is not always clear.
~ Atul Gawande
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Reality is more complex, though. People readily demonstrate a willingness to sacrifice their safety and survival for the sake of something beyond themselves, such as family, country, or justice. And this is regardless of age.
~ Atul Gawande
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So what was the actual basis for charging Noe?
~ Atul Gawande
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If learning is necessary but causes harm, then above all it ought to apply to everyone alike.
~ Atul Gawande
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They belong to the connected and the knowledgeable, to insiders over outsiders, to the doctor's child but not the truck driver's. If choice cannot go to everyone, maybe it is better when it is not allowed at all.
~ Atul Gawande
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Eleanor Bratton, without question, would have been treated completely differently depending on where she went, who she saw, or even just when she saw me
~ Atul Gawande
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We want to see them punished.
~ Atul Gawande
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