Quotes related to Amos 5:24
It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
- James Madison
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
- Leonardo Boff
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you've doled out.
- Euripides
This, then, do you consider, and devise how both you yourselves may be saved and this land, and I be not brought into ill odor with the citizens; for I have not absolute sovereignty, as over barbarians; but if I do just things, I shall receive just things.
- Euripides
Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
- Marianne Williamson
But if by some miracle, and all our struggle, the Earth is spared, only justice to every living thing (and everything is alive) will save humankind Essay: Only Justice Can Stop a Curse
- Alice Walker
I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
- Joel Osteen
We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.
- Mike Pence
That no man of what estate or condition, shall be put out of land or tenement, nor taken nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without being brought in answer by due process of law.
- Anonymous
Equal Justice Under Law.
- Anonymous