Quotes about Justice
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
— Virginia Woolf
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.
— Bill Gates
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
— Philip Yancey
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
— Joseph Heller
Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.
— John Milton
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
— Thomas Jefferson
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
— Abraham Lincoln
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
— Charles Dickens
I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
— Oscar Romero
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."
— Harriet Tubman
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.