“In terms of Saving Face, I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn’t let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.” StoriesFacesTermJusticeInspiredSeekingSavingTreatmentSurvivor Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.” PeopleFacesSocialJusticeIssuesRightsParticularBirthConcernSocial JusticeDivorceCivil RightsAbortionBirth ControlRemarriage Author:William P. Leahy
“From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.” IfsMenStatesFacesLawJusticePoorCrimeEqualFairsIdealsConstitutionNobleLawyerTrialsEmphasisPoor ManTribunalsAccusersFair Trial Author:Hugo Black
“Do not let your heart become troubled by the sad spectacle of human injustice. Even this has its value in the face of all else. And it is from this that one day you will see the justice of God rising with unfailing triumph.” HumansHeartFacesSufferingValuesJusticeOne DayInjusticeTriumphRisingJustice Of God Author:Pio of Pietrelcina
“It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.” KindFacesJusticeWalksPayOughtSignalsDeath Penalty Author:Troy King
“Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all.” KnowsRealActionFacesSufferingFightingChallengesJusticeResultsStruggleAchieveInjusticeAvailableServantOfficialsOur ActionsInactionPublic ServantsElected Officials Author:Hilda Solis
“Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.” FacesJusticeSpeechCourtDrawingSupremeSupreme CourtRuthSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticeGavel Author:Conan O'Brien
“There's a principle here and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all.” WantHeartHandsFacesNationsJusticeLibertyPrinciplesAtheismCourtPositive AtheismDividedFlagsPledgeIndivisibleLiberty And JusticeJustice For AllLiberty And Justice For All Author:Michael Newdow
“Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.” IfsWantCountryHomeRealityFacesFightingPoliticsCausesCan DoLeadershipJusticeTechnologyPolicyTomorrowConstitutionStrategyTerrorismRussiaComing HomeCowardForeign PolicyPatriotBetrayedCubaTraitorAsylumsVenezuelaSnowden Author:John F. Kerry
“If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don't smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don't really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.” IfsWantLooksI CanHandsRealityFacesGamesJusticeLike YouEthicsIdeologyHeyAfrican AmericanShakesOwnersRacistWant MeFree SpeechCivilityRespect MeI Don't Like You Author:Magic Johnson
“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.” LooksEndsRealityFacesChoicesPoliticsWaitingCommunityJusticeMoneyDealsEducationPovertyHistoryGenerationsFrontsHuman NaturePolicyEqualEthicsStrategyPrisonInvestingIdeologyJailTailsEqual RightsInfancyPathologyFood Stamps Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.” RealityRememberFacesMotherPoliticsNamesForceNationsBlackCommunityJusticeFamilyHistoryViolenceGenerationsTearsMomCircumstancesEqualEthicsHuman RightsIdeologyAfrican AmericanTeenagerBrownFree SpeechEqual RightsQuestionableUnarmed Author:Jonathan Capehart
“The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.” CountryFacesOpportunityChallengesJusticePerfectSourceKeysCreatingInstitutionsUnionsCriminalsUsaTensionGapsSoleJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemRacial Tension Author:Barack Obama
“We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.” FactsFacesIndividualJusticeViewsLibertyEconomyEconomicSatisfactionPreservationUmpiresIndividual FreedomIncompatibility Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The U.S. doesn't recognize the laws of Cuba. They can kidnap anybody and bring them back to the States to face the so-called justice system. There's no telling what the U.S. government will do to me. I'm in constant danger; I guess I've gotten used to it.” StatesGovernmentFacesLawUsedJusticeDangerConstantCubaJustice System Author:Assata Shakur
“I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.” ThinkingHas BeensFacesJusticeTakenFocusEconomicParticularOffersNormalApproachConceptsToolsFocusedResistanceTemptationAlternativesLimitationHelpfulActivistTransNormal LifePitfallsEconomic JusticeThinking Differently Author:Dean Spade
“The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled in the merriest way, as if it was champagne," Dostoevsky says. That raises the problem of justice, what it might mean in an unjust world and whether there can be an ethics and a political practice that would be able to face and face down the injustice of the present. How might we begin to think about that?” IfsThinkingWorldWayMeanProblemMightWould BeAbleFacesPoliticalSidesJusticePracticeBloodEthicsRaisesInjusticeDisappointmentRealizationUnjustChampagne Author:Simon Critchley
“Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white.” FacesBlackImaginationJusticeWhitePovertyEconomicCryDesperateActualityEconomic Justice Author:Darryl Pinckney