Quotes related to Micah 6:8
If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
— Pope John Paul II
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.
— Dag Hammarskjold
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
— Ronald Reagan
God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
— Jimmy Carter
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
— Alveda King
We should honor - not attack - those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.
— Brian Krzanich
Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.
— Eric Metaxas