“Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.” KnowsCultureFatherJusticeTalkingDemocracyPositionDiversitySocial JusticeMinorities Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition
“Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?” JusticeTalkingEconomicDevelopmentConnectedBattlefieldsEconomic Development Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.” ThinkingShouldLittlesMomentsJusticeTalkingDeserveMercyBellsAlarmsNot Talking Author:R. C. Sproul
“You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.” TwoDifferentDoneJusticeTalkingHarmDifferent ThingsRetributionTwo Different Things Author:William Shawcross
“Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.” WholeLanguageCan DoJusticeTalkingFailingOriginalsSymbolsDataDistinctionFullnessRichnessQualitative Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930
“I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.” PeopleShouldStillsJusticeTalkingIssuesRightsGaySticksGay PeopleRacial Justice Author:Coretta Scott King
“When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have. People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingFeelsYearsCountryHardUseTermJusticeTalkingVisionRichDangerGiving UpHundredChinaDevelopingFuelFossilsMarginsGet RichFossil FuelDeveloping CountriesInvulnerability Author:Bill McKibben
“A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.” SocialJusticeTalkingHellKnowingCommitmentSocial JusticePassionateSubstitutes Author:Thomas Sowell
“When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use of force against African-American citizens, it's hard to try to rationalize how this cesspool of racism doesn't spill over onto the individual officers.” TryingLooksHardUseIndividualForceJusticeTalkingCitizensRacismPolicePatternsDiscriminationAfrican AmericanDepartmentReportsOfficersSpillsAmerican CitizensRationalizeUse Of ForceFergusonPolice Department Author:Benjamin Crump