Quotes About Justice

It is never too late to do what is right.

In short, for the murders of those I court, I bless the hour that holds your fall.

People are not being paid enough, and we have not increased the minimum wage -- and we should be incentivizing the people who go to work. We should make working full-time something that will pay a living wage.

It has been my conviction ever since reading Rauschenbusch that any religion that professes concern for the souls of men and is not equally concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried. It well has been said: "A religion that ends with the individual, ends.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means

noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good. So

I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice;

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

For King, the essence of democracy is the belief that each person is created in the image of God. "We will know one day that God made us to live together as brothers and to respect the dignity and worth of every man," he affirms.

I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

You got the firing squad?" "No, that's inhuman—those guys can miss and they gutshoot you. You hang a man, that knot can slip and he can strangle. Electric chair, he sizzles, been known to catch fire. Gas chamber, he pukes and yells. Texas is more modern. Here we drug a man, then inject cyanide into a vein. They say it doesn't hurt. No one's ever come back to say yea or nay." Pedro

Aber dann blickte ich auf. Über dem Bücherregal hing eine gerahmte Zeichnung. Sie zeigte einen Hai, der im Begriff ist, einen Barsch zu verschlingen; der Barsch seinerseits schickt sich an, eine Elritze zu schlucken, und diese wiederum will gerade einen Wurm fressen. Der Hai sagt: "Es gibt jede Menge Gerechtigkeit." Der Barsch sagt: "Es gibt ein bißchen Gerechtigkeit." Die Elritze klagt: "Es gibt keine Gerechtigkeit", und der Wurm schreit: "Hilfe!

You know the story of the Harvard graduate comes to Texas a while back and says to his rancher uncle, 'Uncle Will, how come you can get heavier punishment here for stealing a cow than for killing a man?' Uncle Will says, 'Look out the window. See those cows out to pasture? See any of them look like they need stealing?' " Warren

Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!

Christ, cut us up to little pieces. We'll die for what is right! Put fruit trees where our ashes are!

We cannot construct equality. We can create fairness.

The world only stays in balance when good people do what's right.

Advocacy is not adherence or principle if it knows no law.

Long time ago, there is a known gentleman named Robin Hood being chased because of stealing for a good cause. There is no more 'Robin Hoods' at the present time, but the good cause is still chasing for gentlemen to come out.

Any person or any nation can be stoned to death for being misjudged.

Pray for the world that all transgressors rectify themselves, not to tolerate them to do more evil.

The constitution is designed for equal protection of rights. Taxation is designed for equal distribution of rights.