Quotes related to Amos 5:24
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
- Henry David Thoreau
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
- Pope John Paul II
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without justice, there can be no peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
- Theodore Roosevelt
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma.
- Desmond Tutu
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
- Toni Morrison
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
- St. Thomas Aquinas