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Quotes About Justice

If you want peace then you must struggle for social justice.
~ Chris Hani
If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.
~ Emiliano Zapata
Peace is the product of justice and love.
~ Oscar Romero
I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
~ Peter Tosh
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
~ Bayard Rustin
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
~ Louis Farrakhan
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
~ Edmund Burke
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
~ Rachel Carson
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
~ Cesar Chavez
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.
~ William Wallace
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
~ George Washington
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?
~ Edward Said
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.
~ Mairead Corrigan
There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.
~ Mohammed Morsi
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.
~ Benjamin B. Ferencz
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
~ George Carlin
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
~ Martin Luther
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
~ Daniel Berrigan