Justice Quotes

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or European justice systems.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of them are around the globe like the blossom springing on the branches of the Kadamba tree.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

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

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

One day Jesus is going to come back and reign with perfect justice. There will be no questions about what's happened. There will be perfect justice and I look forward to that day.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.