Justice
When we use the term justice we usually mean one of two things: comformity to the law or equality or propotionality. (Comte-Sponville)
Just or not, the law is still the law: no democracy or republic would be possible if people obeyed only laws they approved.True, but no democarcy or republic would be acceptable if obedience required us to abjure justice or tolerate the intolerable(Comte-Sponville)
Our children must see us more than non-bigoted, non-racist, or non-sexist. We must show them that we are anti-bigoted, anti-racist, anti-sexist, actually involved in our community working against such intolerance and hatred and standing up for social justice.-Barbara Coloroso 2005
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited
Beauchamp, Tom L and James F. Childress (2001) Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 5th Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Comte-Sponville, Andre (2001) A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues, New York: henry holt and company