The time is always right to do the right thing.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

It's all stupid and narrow and unjust—but one can't make over society.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Governments encourage this pacification by various distractions, what used to be called "bread and circuses." They know it will keep us small, content, and uninterested in those "weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and good faith" (Matthew 23:23) that have attracted all great souls. A

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.