Quotes About Justice

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

We must realize that our destiny is strongly linked to the destiny of the poorest on this planet.

A person's zip code shouldn't decide their destiny.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

Human dignity should be without borders.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.