Quotes about Justice

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

One is often guilty by being too just.

While awaiting deportation proceedings, my parents remained in detention near Boston, so I could visit them. They would have liked to fight deportation, but without a lawyer and an immigration system that rarely gives judges the discretion to allow families to stay together, they never had a chance.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right

I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and part of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; . . . And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.