Quotes about Justice
Do you know how to die victoriously? Quit keeping score of the injustices that have happened to you.
— John Maxwell
I have had to let go of my need to be right and focus on the greater need to do right.
— John Maxwell
Anytime a relationship is unequal, it cannot last—whether you are giving more than you get or getting more than you deserve.
— John Maxwell
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
— Walt Whitman
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.
— George W. Bush
I desire to know wherefore I am banished?
— Anne Hutchinson
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
— Ambrose of Milan
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A person's zip code shouldn't decide their destiny.
— Barack Obama
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
— Barack Obama