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Quotes About Justice

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
~ Abraham Lincoln
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.
~ Howard Zinn
Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.
~ Laozi
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.
~ Angelina Grimke
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
~ Robert Kennedy
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
~ A. J. Muste
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
~ Karl Liebknecht
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
~ Otto von Bismarck
This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.
~ Henry A. Wallace
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
~ Edward Abbey
In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
~ Tom Hayden
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
~ Primo Levi
What's so civil about war anyway?
~ Axl Rose
There are things worth fighting for.
~ Robert Jordan
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
~ Howard Zinn
It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.
~ Charles Peguy
Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
~ Thomas Jefferson
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
~ Justin Sane
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
~ Irene Khan