Quotes about Justice
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Citizens are not governed for their good and for the true glory of the supreme King when the secular authorities do not rule according to the divine Law and are not set to observe it themselves. For where God is not recognized and obedience to Him is not required before all things, there peace is not peace, justice is not justice, and that which should be profitable brings injury instead.
— Martin Bucer
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
— Martin Luther
We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people
— Martin Luther
A unjust law, is no law at all.
— Martin Luther
That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.
— Martin Luther
I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.
— Martin Luther
God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.
— Martin Luther
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects
— Martin Luther
God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy
— Martin Luther
But the truth will win out.
— Martin Luther