Quotes About Justice

My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.