Quotes about Justice

I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.