Quotes About Justice

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others.

In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions.... Peace is still possible.

Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

Martin Luther King was a voice to the voiceless, and he did that tirelessly, and his faith was the engine to that. But he was just a human being, at the end of the day.

I have great faith in the jury system.

To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society