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Quotes About Justice

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.
~ Oscar Romero
What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.
~ Jody Williams
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
~ Oscar Romero
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
~ Nelson Mandela
Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
~ Jimmy Carter
We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.
~ Emiliano Zapata
I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.
~ Michael Douglas
There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
~ Pope John Paul II
I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.
~ Edward Said
Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.
~ Anna Julia Cooper
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
~ Arthur Henderson
Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
~ Haile Selassie
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
~ Abbie Hoffman
Peace without justice is tyranny
~ William Allen White
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
~ Thomas Merton
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Without peace, there is little hope for human rights
~ Martin Ennals
Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.
~ Widad Akreyi
Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
~ Jessie Sampter