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Quotes About Justice

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!
~ Kinky Friedman
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.
~ Federico Mayor Zaragoza
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
~ Desmond Tutu
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
~ Thomas Aquinas
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
~ Pope John Paul II
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
~ Lorraine Hansberry
Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
~ Abigail Van Buren
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
~ Florence Nightingale
So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.
~ Godfrey Reggio
I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.
~ Nelson Mandela
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
~ Ram Dass
We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.
~ Leonard Read
Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'
~ Mark Thomas
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.
~ Hildegard Goss-Mayr
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
~ Bill Gates
Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
~ Desmond Tutu