Quotes about Justice
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
— Khalil Gibran
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
— Thomas Jefferson
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.
— John F. Kennedy
We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.
— Martin Luther King III
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
— Ronald Reagan
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
— Abraham Lincoln
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
— Martin Luther
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more laws, the less justice.
— Cicero
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
— Edmund Burke