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Quotes About Justice

God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.
~ Pearl S. Buck
It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.
~ Pearl S. Buck
We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs (Buck, 105).
~ Pearl S. Buck
want to go where my children never hear that a man's color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Hay tantos niños que van a nacer con una alita rota Y yo quiero que vuelen compañero Que su revolución les dé un pedazo de cielo rojo Para que puedan volar
~ Unknown
We've raised a generation of girls to have a voice, to expect egalitarian treatment in the home, in the classroom, in the workplace. Now it's time to demand that "intimate justice" in their personal lives as well.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.
~ William P. Young
Please use anger for something positive like hurting people that deserve it or writing jokes.
~ Dov Davidoff
There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.
~ Desmond Tutu
When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.
~ Euripides
Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
Wage of rage of revenge ain't worth it. What's the point of being enslaved by a slave?
~ Anonymous
Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don't get mad get even.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
Some ride the bullet to vent, while some shoot the bullet to revenge.
~ Anthony Liccione
When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.
~ Rachel Cohn, Beta
Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.
~ Unknown
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
~ Coretta Scott King
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
~ Hannah Arendt
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
~ Frederick Douglass
The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.
~ Unknown
It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.
~ William H. Hastie
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
~ Victor Hugo
Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?
~ Wally Hickel