Justice Quotes

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

If you believe in justice, surely you believe in the hereafter, because this world is not just.

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.