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Quotes About Justice

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
~ Desmond Tutu
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
~ Victor Hugo
Effective action is always unjust.
~ Maya Angelou
Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
~ Leon Blum
Peace without justice is an impossibility.
~ Desmond Tutu
Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
~ Nelson Mandela
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
~ Wendell Berry
My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.
~ Walter Kohn
World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
~ Helen Keller
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.
~ Helen Keller
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
~ Harry S. Truman
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.
~ William Shakespeare
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
~ Kofi Annan
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
~ Blaise Pascal
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
~ Cesar Chavez
In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame
~ Nikki Giovanni
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.
~ Barack Obama
If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.
~ Pope Paul VI
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
~ George Bernard Shaw