Sarah Jeong Quotes

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

Justice delayed has the same consequences as justice denied.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

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.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

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

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

If there is to be justice in the world, American must create it.

And Justice for Some

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.