Quotes about Justice
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
- Martin Luther
Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.
- Oscar Romero
There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
- Pope John Paul II
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
- Thomas Merton
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.
- Mother Teresa
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.