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Quotes related to Proverbs 21:3
It is good to think that in Heaven all troubles will be over, that war and carnage will be no more, that all injustice, cruelty and wrong shall be no more; but incomparably better is it for a man to gird on the whole armour of truth and righteousness, and wage war with these evils, and banish them from the Earth -- and thus have the will of God done on Earth as done in Heaven.
- Frederick Douglass
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against.
- Malcolm X
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
- Malcolm X
Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand.
- Marcus Aurelius
Do your best to convince them. But act on your own, if justice requires it. If met with force, then fall back on acceptance and peaceability. Use the setback to practice other virtues. Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren't aiming to do the impossible. —Aiming to do what, then? To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished.
- Marcus Aurelius
Justice: so that you'll speak the truth, frankly and without evasions, and act as you should—and as other people deserve.
- Marcus Aurelius
22. Not to be driven this way and that, but always to behave with justice and see things as they are.
- Marcus Aurelius
He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only who does a certain thing.
- Marcus Aurelius
Inquire of thyself as soon as thou wakest from sleep, whether it will make any difference to thee, if another does what is just and right. It will make no difference.
- Marcus Aurelius
To righteousness, in speaking the truth freely, and without ambiguity; and in doing all things justly and discreetly.
- Marcus Aurelius
But your conversion should always rest on a conviction that it's right, or benefits others—nothing else. Not because it's more appealing or more popular.
- Marcus Aurelius
a distinction has gradually sprung up between what is expedient and what is right. But the implication that something can be right without being expedient, or expedient without being right, is the most pernicious error that could possibly be introduced into human life.
- Cicero