Quotes about Justice

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

But always they featured things we believed were wrong in the sight of God. Stealing, lying, murder. Was this what God wanted in times like these? How should a Christian act when evil was in power?

How should a Christian act when evil was in power?

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.

It simply means that within every man, God has planted a divine desire to fight for righteousness.

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.

For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.