Quotes About Justice

It's Unfair to be fair, For Life is unfair

Ostracism is just another form of racism!

Life is as fair as you perceive it to be.

The world is as fair as you perceive it to be.

The time is always right for the right thing.

You may think you will never get caught for your wrongdoing, but be assured that you will be imprisoned by your wrongdoing.

If we agree that God did not create poverty then, in my opinion, it came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.

If we agree that God did not create poverty, then in my opinion, poverty came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

Even the most political poem is an act of faith.

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.