Quotes about Justice
I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
— Muhammad Ali
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
— Frederick Douglass
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.
— Gloria Steinem
The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.
— Martin Luther King III
Climate change pries further apart the haves and have-nots.
— Martin Luther King III
My future is righteousness.
— Bob Marley
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
— Pierre Corneille
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
— Edmund Burke
We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
— Rick Warren
We're all, by and large, comparatively speaking, rich people and have perhaps more than one home. And yet the question is, are we really at home anywhere? Are we really at home in any of our homes? Because it seems to me that to be at home somewhere means to be at peace somewhere and I have a feeling at some deep level there can really be no peace for any of us, no real home for any of us, until there is some measure of real peace for everybody until everybody has a home.
— Frederick Buechner
A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
— Frederick Douglass