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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

Arundhati Roy
Jail, Justice, Silence

Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

Arundhati Roy
Peace, Real, Justice
"Peace and the new corporate liberation theology". Arundhati Roy's speech at the Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, sydney.edu.au. November 4, 2004.

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.

Arundhati Roy
Rights, Justice, Goal
Source: www.truth-out.org

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

Arundhati Roy
Commitment, Justice, Social
Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.79, Haymarket Books

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

Arundhati Roy
People, Justice, Damage
"The algebra of infinite justice" by Arundhati Roy, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

Arundhati Roy
Justice, Alternatives, Terrorism
Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.324, Penguin Books India

Human rights takes history out of justice.

Arundhati Roy
Rights, Justice, Human Rights
Source: www.truth-out.org

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

Arundhati Roy
Ideas, Rights, Justice
Source: www.truth-out.org

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