Quotes about Justice

Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.

The personal is political.

Exodus 21:22—23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies. Thus the Bible is making clear that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.

In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.