Quotes About Justice

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.

Today unbind the captive,So only are ye unbound;Lift up a people from the dust,Trump of their rescue, sound!

There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Ramachandra Guha

Good things happen, bad things are done..."

Weaving his tale into the river's drift, Narada began the legend of Rama, prince of Ayodhya, who was as noble as the sea is deep, as powerful as Mahavishnu, whose Avatara he was when the treta yuga was upon the world, as steadfast as the Himalaya, handsome as Soma the Moon God, patient as the Earth, generous as Kubera, just as Dharma; but his rage if roused like the fire at the end of time.

People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more.

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain: you cannot have either until you have both.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

Justice will come when those who hope outweigh those who despair. Hope is a force that cannot be reckoned with, ya Hayaat.

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Until America's white ruling class accepts the fact that the book never closes on massive unredressed social wrongs, America can have no future as one people.

A slur against any group by a member of another can never go unremarked if our society is to have any long-term future.

At long last, let America contemplate the scope of its enduring human-rights wrong against the whole of a people. Let the vision of blacks not become so blighted from a sunless eternity that we fail to see the staggering breadth of America's crime against us.

Solutions must be tailored to the scope of the crime in a way that would make the victim whole. In this case, the psychic and economic injury is enormous, multidimensional and long-running. Thus must be America's restitution to blacks for the damage done.

When America liked it? When Cuba was racially segregated? When education was only available to a privileged few? When the poor died of easily curable ailments? When vice was rampant? Had they preferred Batista's mafia-infested Cuba? Or the Cuba between the state that Teddy Roosevelt preened to subjugate and Franklin Delano Roosevelt worked to keep?

What kind of God would allow suffering in His universe?