Quotes about Justice
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The political is personal.
- Gloria Steinem
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
- Thomas Jefferson
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.
- Thomas Adams
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle
I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.
- Nelson Mandela
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.