Quotes about Justice

we will not have a politics of justice and compassion unless we have a religion of God's freedom.

From beginning to end the narrative shows, with no rush to conclude, how the religious claims of Egyptian gods are nullified by this Lord of freedom. The narrative shows, with delighted lingering, how the politics of oppression is overcome by the practice of justice and compassion.

The key players, it turns out, are those who refuse to be credentialed or curbed by traditional modes of power, who understand that the transformative power of truth is not a credible companion for consolidating modes of established power, but that truth characteristically runs beyond the confines of such power.

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

Faith is both the conviction that justice can be accomplished and the refusal to accept injustice.

Intercession, that is, intrusion into the courts of power on behalf of another, is central to the church's action in prayer.

Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

This is God's holiness and justice revealed in Jesus Christ: that God justifies, accepts, and loves sinners despite their unworthiness.