Quotes about Justice
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.
— William Saroyan
As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
— William Ury
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
— William Wilberforce
God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.
— William Wilberforce
You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.
— William Wilberforce
We are all guilty... [But the opportunity to make money] can draw a film across the eyes, so thick, that total blindness could do no more... A trade founded in iniquity must be abolished... let the consequences be what they will.
— William Wilberforce
Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.
— William Wilberforce
What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.
— William Wilberforce
Right is more precious than peace.
— Woodrow Wilson
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
— Woodrow Wilson