“Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.” HateCan DoJusticeBrotherInjusticeYour BrotherHate Him Book:The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War Source: The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War
“My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.” FirstsTwoBookYoungReadingJusticeBrotherJudgingLettersFacilityJuvenileCitingYoung BrotherJuvenile Justice Author:Hill Harper
“The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.” MenTryingMindHardFatherBlackJusticeStreetsBrotherGrewGrew UpToughMalesMy BrotherStayingConceptionDiverseGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBlack Males Author:Cornel West
“All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.” MenWorldLongHas BeensDoneFightingSidesJusticeForgetSonBrotherBearsOne DayHusbandInjusticeSexismSensibleLong LifeSemblanceSixth Sense Author:Amelia Barr
“To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.” LoveTodayMotherJusticeHonestyTearsBrotherReturnAskingCriminalsRepeatsAccomplicesNaples Author:Pope Francis
“I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challenge the whole criminal justice system, and I'm trying to use whatever knowledge I was able to acquire to continue to do the work in our communities that will move us forward.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsTryingStillsWholeHelpingUseAbleMovingCommunityChallengesJusticeBrotherCriminalsGuiltyAcquireBrothers And SistersOur CommunityJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice System Author:Angela Davis
“Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.” PeopleHas BeensSongCommunityJusticeLeaderStruggleLandBrotherEssentialsSingingCloudsTheologyWitnessInvitesThronesEgyptSermonsMosesLiturgyClarifying Author:Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
“There is no safety in hiding. Like my brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard. Sustained by the memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, excellence and courage that distinguished their lives.” TryingYearsTogetherMemoriesJusticeSpecialBrotherStandardsPicksCommitmentSafetyExcellenceFallenMy BrotherHidingDistinguishedPricelessYears Together Author:Edward Kennedy
“There comes a time in every relationship when it's damaging to seek justice, when settling the score only stirs the fire. There comes a time when the best thing you can do is accept your brother and offer him the same grace you've been given.” GivenCan DoJusticeAcceptingFireGraceBrotherOffersBest ThingsSettlingScoreBitternessYour BrotherThere Comes A Time Author:Richard Walters