Quotes About Justice

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say: 'Do you want the criminals off the street or not?'

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.

For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.

The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.

How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

Higher income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to.

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment