Quotes related to Amos 5:24
We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'
— Martin Luther
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
— Tom Lehrer
People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
— Desmond Tutu
Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)
— Peter Kreeft
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
— Mary Harris Jones
Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others.
— Tony Evans
A man who doesn't stand for what is right dies his own death well before it happens.
— Lisa Wingate
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
— Thomas Jefferson
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission, say something similar: "God has a plan to fight injustice, and that plan is us — ?his people. There is no Plan B.
— Philip Yancey
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
— Sojourner Truth
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
— Pope Francis