Quotes About Justice

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

If you want peace, work for justice.

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.

We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

I think you pay people based on their work and not based on gender. It's that simple.

I do this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as they exist because my work is beyond class, religion and creed.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

I don't believe that everybody should be paid the same. I believe in equal pay for equal work.

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.