Terror and Silence
What is keeping rape in our society is silence. The silence [of women] is really a strong tool of rapists, so they can go on destroying girls and women. If she stays in silence, she can be raped again and again. And she can’t protect others. One of the implications of...
Hazy Daze
Justice is a broad and hazy subject. It is one of the most elusive and debatable concepts known to humankind, and disagreements over its meaning have spawned revolutions, religions, and civil wars. I do not advance here some grand and novel theory of justice. But what...
The Second Magna Carta – the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
…social justice means the implementation and realization of human rights as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ratified by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948 with the addition of the right to a productive, safe, and clean...
Systems Failure
One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with something closer to justice. Justice means everyone is equal under the...
The Contemplation of Justice
US Supreme Court Building
- James Earl Fraser
It’s About Justice provides a quotation about Justice sent to your email. These gathered quotations are spoken from voices from all over the globe and range from the earliest, 2852 BC, to today’s headlines.
