Quotes About Justice

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just.

There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements do very valuable work.

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.

Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.