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Quotes About Justice

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
~ Helen Garner
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
~ Kim Dae-jung
Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
~ Kjell Magne Bondevik
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.
~ Unknown
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
~ Cesar Chavez
The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.
~ Martin Schulz
I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
~ Paul Wellstone
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
~ Richard M. Nixon
I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.
~ Henry Rollins
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
~ Barack Obama
Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
~ Frederick Douglass
The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.
~ John Flavel
Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.
~ Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.
~ Jo Walton
The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.
~ Pope Francis
It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.
~ DaShanne Stokes
Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.
~ Rodrigo Duterte
In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
~ Maajid Nawaz
Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!
~ Pope Francis
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.
~ Ella Baker