Justice Quotes

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.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

If you want peace, work for justice.

The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

There could never really be justice on stolen land.

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.

The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

Justice is the soul of the universe.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.