Quotes about Justice

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

I want my daughters to live in a world where there is equality and parity of pay.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.

God is just, merciful, good, wise, loving.

Our best feelings, which God himself has planted in our hearts, instinctively revolt against the thought that a God of infinite love and justice should create millions of immortal beings in his own image—probably more than half of the human race—in order to hurry them from the womb to the tomb, and from the tomb to everlasting doom!

The Calvinistic system involves a positive truth: the election to eternal life by free grace, and the negative inference: the reprobation to eternal death by arbitrary justice. The former is the strength, the latter is the weakness of the system. The former is practically accepted by all true believers; the latter always has been, and always will be, repelled by the great majority of Christians.

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.