Quotes about Justice

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.

Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

Overcoming fear, personal scarifies for the cause of freedom of all, and ability to see good in your enemies — No one is born hating another person because of the color of your skin, or his background, or his religion … if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

To be free is to not merely cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

No matter what I suffered in my pursuit of freedom, I always took strength from the fact that I was fighting with and for my own people. Bram was a free man who fought against his own people to ensure the freedom of others

I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom.