Quotes about Justice

Life is not fair; God is.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

The imprecatory psalms are for us to pray, who are not victims. Indeed, if we do not want to pray them, it raises questions about the shallowness of our own spirituality, theology and ethics. Do we not want to see wrongdoers put down and punished? One

A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

I could not be admitted by my advocates to defend my cause, I appealed unto the high judge Christ.