Raoul Peck Quotes

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

Equality is a monster.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

The law is cruel.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

Racial discrimination is wrong and racial preference is just as wrong.

Effective action is always unjust.

The source of justice was the fear of injustice.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

…Anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead