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There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind of justice - equal justice for all.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
the morality of this work is also marginal;
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. William Blake wrote, “We are put on earth for a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.” Turns out this is what we all have in common, gang member and nongang member alike: we’re ju
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Cathy O'Neil • Weapons of Math Destruction
” Levitt’s deadpan spunkiness emerges throughout the essay. She is a proud reporter, insisting on the exterior, matter-of-fact, impersonal quality of her work, writes Gopnik. But she refused to become a journalist. “A reporter,” according to Levitt, “says what she sees; a photojournalist sees what everyone else is saying.”
Bill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)

We use these things to determine who we hire, the boundaries of neighborhoods, who gets pulled over by police, the length of prison sentences, and on it goes.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Another study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality.