Quotes about Justice
That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.
- Oscar Romero
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The cry for peace will increase according to scripture.
- David Wilkerson
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without justice, there can be no peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
- Albert Einstein
The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
- Thomas Merton
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
- St. Therese of Lisieux