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Quotes About Justice

Vi što nas u?ite da živeti treba Bez greha i bez misli kakve zle, Morate najpre da nam date hleba, Pa tad zborite: s tim po?inje sve. Svi vi što volite svoj trbuh i naš rad Pamtite dobro, za ceo vek: Ma kako stvari obrtali sad, Prvo je ždranje. Moral - potom tek. Siromah mora prvo mo?i, zna se, Deo poga?e da odse?e zna se.
~ Bertolt Breht
We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power.
~ Bertram M. Gross
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
~ Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
~ Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
~ Bertrand Russell
Sometimes I think I was the official killer of bad bills. One I recollect at this minute was about exemptin' debtors from their just debts. The more I listened to 'em argue about lettin' people get out from under their legitimate obligations, the madder I got. If the day ever comes when you can legislate people out of their honest debts . . . well, I never want to live to see it. The country will be in a bad way, that's all I got to say for it.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
Non-violently, peacefully, while the eyes of this country are watching these games, they take a knee to bring our attention and our focus to this problem to ensure that we fix it, that is why they are doing it. And I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up, or take a knee, for your rights, any time, anywhere, in any place.
~ Beto O'Rourke
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
~ Betty Ford
Why should women accept this picture of a half-life, instead of a share in the whole of human destiny?
~ Betty Friedan
I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.
~ Betty Hill
The relevant question is not whether all Whites are racist but how we can move more White people from a position of active or passive racism to one of active antiracism.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
Learning to spot "that stuff "—whether it is racist, or sexist, or classist—is an important skill for children to develop.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging the complicity in the oppression of others.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
What we do know is that more than fifty years after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the struggle for the right to vote continues.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
Carry on, please. Women don't usually take a skillet to his head and I'm anxious to witness it,
~ Beverly Jenkins
all females, regardless of age, race, or circumstances, should always be plotting rebellion to better the state of women.
~ Beverly Jenkins
Had the Army been helpful, maybe the murderer wouldn't be wherever he was taken.
~ Beverly Jenkins
I shot the sheriff?
~ Beverly Jenkins
I don't have the desire nor the patience to argue laws that only one race has to abide by.
~ Beverly Jenkins
Although the law may never reflect it, we are not less in any way, and I refuse to believe that I am simply because others do.
~ Beverly Jenkins
The 1857 Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott vs Sanford continued to influence judiciary thinking, and he doubted its ramifications would be banished in his lifetime, if ever.
~ Beverly Jenkins