Quotes about Justice

Sigh: who was it who said that to get into heaven, you needed a letter of recommendation from the poor?

Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.

Jesus said that whatever you did to the least of his people, you did to him, and the lifers in penitentiaries are the leastest people in this country. Just look to see whose budgets are being cut these days -- the old, the crazies, the children in Head Start -- and that's where Jesus will be.

A softer call, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). A truer call, "What does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8).

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.