- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice Quotes
On fairness, nature's justice, and social change.
One recurring idea here is striking: that nature itself outvotes us, remembering longer and judging more strictly than human institutions ever could. Elsewhere, justice is framed as the goal of a teaching movement rather than a courtroom concept. Peace touches similar territory.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us to face the reality that American-style punishment has been chosen.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is any hope that we in America might one day overcome our own history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, and oppression and create a justice system that is truly a source of international pride rather than shame, I suspect Rwanda may have as much to teach us about what is required as any tour of a Norwegian prison.
- Criminal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hypothesis is not so much that the court is the natural expression of popular justice, but rather that its historical function is to ensnare it, to control it and strangle it, by re-inscribing it within institutions which are typical of a state apparatus.
- Criminal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really retain much from the first couple semesters of my criminal justice studies.
- Criminal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I discovered the theater at Santa Clara and once I got into the theater program, I never got into specific criminal justice studies.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within the government, within the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, you have practically eliminated any training or any use of the term 'radical Islam.' That's what we're facing.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.
- Disappointed
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- Nov 07, 2020