Quotes related to Micah 6:8
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
— Audre Lorde
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
— Muhammad Ali
The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
— Ronald Reagan
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
— Abraham Lincoln
The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
the better angels of our nature
— Abraham Lincoln
The more laws, the less justice.
— Cicero
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
— Abraham Lincoln
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
— Henry David Thoreau