Quotes about Justice
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
- Peter Kreeft
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
- Ronald Reagan
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook
- Thomas Jefferson
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
- Frederick Buechner
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
- Desmond Tutu
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
- Malcolm X
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Thomas Jefferson
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.