Quotes about Justice

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

A right delayed is a right denied.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from Rediscovering Lost Values)

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.