Quotes About Justice

The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs