Quotes about Justice
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
- Euripides
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
- Abraham Lincoln
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
- Albert Camus
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
- Martin Luther
If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.