Quotes about Justice
We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need.
— Jim Rohn
I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.
— Philip Yancey
Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.
— Winston Churchill
We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest.
— Winston Churchill
At the heart of Deuteronomy stands chapter 15, with its laws on the release of debts and slaves.
— Christopher Wright
Righteousness can never be legislated. It is a matter of the heart.
— Chuck Smith
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
— Cicero
People are not being paid enough, and we have not increased the minimum wage -- and we should be incentivizing the people who go to work. We should make working full-time something that will pay a living wage.
— Clay Aiken
If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.
— Hillary Clinton
We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable. There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
— Hillary Clinton
If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations.
— Pope Benedict XVI