Quotes about Justice

If America would come to herself and return to her true home, "one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," she would give the democratic creed a new authentic ring, enkindle the imagination of mankind and fire the souls of men. If she fails, she will be victimized with the ultimate social psychosis that can lead only to national suicide.

Bóng t?i không th? xua tan bóng t?i, ch? ánh sáng má»â€ºi làm ???c Ä'i?u Ä'ó. H?n thù không th? xóa b? h?n thù, ch? tình yêu má»â€ºi làm ???c Ä'i?u Ä'ó mà thôi.

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The struggle for rights is, at bottom, a struggle for opportunities.

it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

To believe in nonviolence does not mean that violence will not be inflicted upon you. The believer in nonviolence is the person who will willingly allow himself to be the victim of violence but will never inflict violence upon another.

Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil. The greatest way to do that is through love. I believe firmly that love is a transforming power than can lift a whole community to new horizons of fair play, goodwill, and justice.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.