Jutta Limbach Quotes

And Justice for Some

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The government is so brave that it dares to arrest, capture and punish Muslim leaders and activists. But officials do not have the courage to capture those engaged in corruption or the gambling mafia, who, destroy the country's moral structure

The system seems to most people as rigged, and it is.

I know what it's like to think the system has left you behind.

I am not OK with the system that allows certain people to fail or be chucked out. I don't accept that.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.