Quotes About Justice

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.

She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.