Quotes About Justice

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

There is no power without justice.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.