Quotes about Justice

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

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

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

Truth will prevail.

The price of peace is righteousness.