“Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done, what the AU is simply saying is that what is critical, what is the priority, is peace. That is priority number one now.”

— Jakaya Kikwete

His backing for Sudan's President Omar Bashir, 2008-09-09 http://ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2008/09/09/122209.html <br class="br">2008

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done, what the AU is simply saying is that what is critical, what is…" by Jakaya Kikwete?

Jakaya Kikwete23

Tanzanian politician and president 1950

Bernard Crick (1929–2008) British political theorist and democratic socialist

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 148.

“The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.”

Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist

UN Address (1999)

“I feel that the rule of law must be upheld. I simply will not accept any apology until justice is done.”

Koila Nailatikau (1953) Fijian politician

October 2004
On her boycott of the "Fiji Week" reconciliation ceremonies

“If in any instances, wrong has been done by our forefathers to people of one colour, by dispossessing them of their soil, what better atonement is now in our power than that of making what is rightfully acquired a source of justice & of blessings to a people of another colour?”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

1810s, Letter to Robert J. Evans (1819)

“I think murdering Iraqi union leaders is criminal, for example. And a lot of what the insurgents have done is criminal. But, you know, you rank the priorities. Our priority is to stop major war crimes, like Fallujah for example. So yeah, what the resistance is doing, one can also criticize, harshly in fact. But in any kind of ranking, even if we're on Mars, and certainly if we're in the United States, what is vastly more important is our own crimes, which are much worse, and they're ours.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Quotes 2000s, 2005, Interview by Doug Henwood, 2004

“Profit, Empire, Industry. What was a dead lake, a few poisoned rivers, a few slagged hillsides? Priorities, that was what it was about. Priorities and Progress.”

Ian McDonald book Desolation Road

Source: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 56 (p. 276).

“The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“I wish I could say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done himself less than justice. Unfortunately, I can only say that I believe he has done himself justice. Some Chancellors are macro-economic. Other Chancellors are fiscal. This one is just plain cheap.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

On Denis Healey, in a remark in the House of Commons (22 January 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=102591 <br class="br">Shadow Secretary for Environment

“Trust that justice will be done in our courts without prejudice or partisanship is what, in a large part, distinguishes this country from others.”

Merrick Garland (1952) American judge

[Remarks by the President Announcing Judge Merrick Garland as his Nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick, Garland, w:Merrick Garland, The White House, March 16, 2016, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Remarks_by_the_President_Announcing_Judge_Merrick_Garland_as_his_Nominee_to_the_Supreme_Court#Remarks_by_Judge_Garland]; quote then excerpted in:
[March 18, 2016, http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=167418, Obama warns foes on top court pick, March 18, 2016, The Standard]
Remarks by Judge Garland upon nomination to Supreme Court of the United States (2016)

“What is at at stake now is the peace of the world. What we are striving for is a new international order based upon broad and universal principles of right and justice, -- no mere peace of shreds and patches.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

1910s, Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918)

“Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done, what the AU is simply saying is that what is critical, what is the priority, is peace. That is priority number one now.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Jakaya Kikwete23

Related quotes

Related topics