Quotes about Justice
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will NOT have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!
— Dr. Seuss
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
— Ernestine Rose
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.
— Ayn Rand
There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.
— Mother Teresa
Not to share one's goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.
— Pope Francis
If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Jesus teaches us to put the needs of the poor ahead of our own, our needs, even if legitimate, will never be so urgent as those of the poor, who lack the necessities of life.
— Pope Francis
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson