Quotes about Justice

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

My mother always said that if you do the right thing, the universe comes to your aid

All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.