Quotes about Justice
I was told that Daddy was murdered by a white man. I could have adopted an attitude of hating whites. But then in 1974 my grandmother was killed by a black man, so I could have hated blacks too.
— Martin Luther King III
Because no matter who we are or where we come from, we're all entitled to the basic human rights of clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and healthy land to call home.
— Martin Luther King III
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
— Carl Jung
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
— Jordan Peterson
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
— Pope John Paul II
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
— Martin Van Buren
That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
People ask why God allows suffering. You could just as well ask the Minister of Transport why he allows accidents on Britain's roads.
— Reinhard Bonnke
It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.
— Paul Johnson
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.