Quotes about Justice
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
- Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
- Mark Twain
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
- Stephen Colbert
As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.
- Desmond Tutu
Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice
- Nelson Mandela
A nation that kills its own children has no future.
- Pope John Paul II
For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
- James A. Garfield
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
- Ayn Rand
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
- Miroslav Volf
Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.