Justice Quotes

I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.

Fairness is what justice really is.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

I say that justice is truth in action.