Quotes about Justice
Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.
— Eugene Peterson
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
— Euripides
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
— Euripides
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
— Euripides
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
— Thomas Paine
I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Hate-filled people easily believe and repeat slanderous lies about innocent men.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.
— Thomas Becket
And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.
— Alfred Doblin
My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.
— Pramila Jayapal
You don't have to be Latino to speak powerfully about how important it is to have a police department that cares for our immigrant communities.
— Eric Garcetti