Quotes about Justice

There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.

Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.

All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

When you are fully confident that your Father is just, you know that injustice will not prosper. You will not become angry when offenses are committed against you because you will leave it in his hands.

Therefore, we cannot rightly say, "My God is not a God of judgment and anger; my God is a God of love." Such thinking makes it almost impossible to grow in the fear of the Lord. It suggests that sin only saddens God rather than offends him. Both justice and love are expressions of his holiness, and we must know both to learn the fear of the Lord.

If we look only at God's love, we will not need him, and there will be no urgency in the message of the cross. If we focus narrowly on God's justice, we will want to avoid him, and we will live in terror-fear, always feeling guilty and waiting for punishment.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.