Quotes about Justice
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
— Polycarp
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
— St. Basil
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
— Cicero
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
— Desmond Tutu
Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil
— Dennis Prager
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
— Thomas Jefferson
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.