Quotes About Justice

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.