Quotes related to Amos 5:24
So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.
- Rose Schneiderman
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.
- Wendell Berry
One is often guilty by being too just.
- Pierre Corneille
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The game is played not to protect the rules; rather, the rules are made to protect the game. That
- Ravi Zacharias
I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning
- Joseph Heller
That's not what justice is, the colonel jeered, and began pounding the table again with his big fat hand. That's what Karl Marx is. I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting. That's what justice is when we've all got to be tough enough and rough enough to fight Billy Petrolle. From the hip. Get it?
- Joseph Heller
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
- Walt Whitman
Worship that does not lead to neighborly compassion and justice cannot be faithful worship of YHWH. The offer is a phony Sabbath!
- Walter Brueggemann
No establishment figure wants to tolerate affrontive poetry that exposes the failure of the totalizing system and claims it contradicts God's will.
- Walter Brueggemann
Since we now live in a society—and a world—that is fitfully drifting toward fascism, the breaking of silence is altogether urgent. In the institutional life of the church, moreover, the breaking of silence by the testimony of the gospel often means breaking the silence among those who have a determined stake in maintaining the status quo.
- Walter Brueggemann
Silence is a strategy for the maintenance of the status quo, with its unbearable distribution of power and wealth.
- Walter Brueggemann