Echoes Across Time

Ubuntu Justice — Healing Over Punishment

Ubuntu philosophy approaches justice as restoration: how do we repair harm and reconnect the community? Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, bell hooks.

34 total quotes

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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

—Mother TeresaCatholic Nun & Founder

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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Whoever is indifferent to the pain of others is not worthy to be called human.

—Saadi ShiraziPoet & Writer

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

—Ama Ata AidooAuthor, Poet & Playwright

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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A woman who keeps silent in pain is already dead.

—Doreen BainganaWriter

Contemporary ERA • East Africa

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Angry? Yes. But I choose to use my anger constructively.

—Leymah GboweeActivist

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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A deep sense of human brotherhood was the one thing that united us.

—Bessie HeadNovelist

Post-War ERA • Southern Africa

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To me, there is no difference between a mother who loses a child and a nation that loses its freedom.

—Winnie Madikizela-MandelaActivist & Politician

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

—Toni MorrisonNovelist & Editor

Late Modern ERA • North America

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Every woman is a queen in her own kingdom.

—Buchi EmechetaNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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A woman is something. A woman is a somebody in Africa.

—Ama Ata AidooAuthor, Poet & Playwright

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

—Nelson MandelaAnti-Apartheid Activist & President

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one essence and soul.

—Saadi ShiraziPoet & Writer

Medieval ERA • MENA

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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

—Desmond TutuTheologian

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

—Nelson MandelaAnti-Apartheid Activist & President

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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We women stand for justice. We stand for peace and for reconciliation.

—Albertina SisuluActivist

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

—Chinua AchebeNovelist & Critic

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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It is the women who keep the nation alive. We are the mothers.

—Albertina SisuluActivist

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.

—Muhammad AliBoxer & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Truth is the beginning of every good thing.

—Chinua AchebeNovelist & Critic

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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I am a living symbol of what this country has gone through.

—Winnie Madikizela-MandelaActivist & Politician

Contemporary ERA • Southern Africa

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