Justice Quotes

Injustice never rules forever.

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has something to offer the movement of justice

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.

A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.

Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.

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 function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Fairness is what justice really is.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.