Quotes about Justice
Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
— Psalm 15:5
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
— Barack Obama
Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
— Alexander Hamilton
I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
— Bob Goff
No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.
— St. John Chrysostom
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it?
— Wendell Berry
But, my dear boy, you don't eat or drink the law, or sit in the shade of it or warm yourself by it, or wear it, or have your being in it. The law exists only to serve.
— Wendell Berry
Wheeler served them as their defender against the law itself, before which they were ciphers, and so felt themselves—and he could do this only as their friend.
— Wendell Berry
Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
— Wendell Berry