Quotes about Justice

it's not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn't what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn't have to suffer." Instead, our "sorrow and indignation" should prompt us to act in ways that "subvert" that brokenness.

When the church protects the powerful at the expense of the victim, we have compromised. And in the end, these compromises add up and convince the world that the church is not a community for the broken in search of healing but just another human institution that puts expediency above righteousness and justice.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.

There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

The law is not concerned with trifles.

That no man of what estate or condition, shall be put out of land or tenement, nor taken nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without being brought in answer by due process of law.

Equal Justice Under Law.