Quotes about Justice

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

The messianic hope was never the hope of the victors and the rulers. It was always the hope of the defeated and the ground down.31 The hope of the poor is nothing other than the messianic hope.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

If the cause is worthy the cost is irrelevant!

Our business is not enemy making but enemy loving. Our business is not dividing the country into blue and red states, but being a people of one accord. Our business is not securing the power to rule, but doing justice, showing mercy, and walking humbly with our God.

When organized religion organizes around the things Jesus would be pleased with, amazing things can happen.

Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.