Quotes about Justice
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
- Cicero
I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.
- George H. W. Bush
The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
- Malcolm X
I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.
- Winston Churchill
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.
- James Faust
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
- Thomas Jefferson
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
- Frederick Douglass
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
- Mother Teresa
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
- Edmund Burke
To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
- Desmond Tutu