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Quotes About Justice

True happiness is everyone's good, not personal comfort when many, too many live in poverty and despair.
~ Unknown
We have agreed to be equal in all rights and responsibilities. How much equal, we have yet to set.
~ Unknown
I hope you're not contemplating retaliation against Mr. Figueroa." She smiled again. "Don't need to. Karma will take care of him." "As long as Karma isn't a hit man from New Delhi, we're good.
~ Unknown
La revolución beneficia al pobre, al ignorante, al que toda su vida ha sido esclavo, a los infelices que ni siquiera saben que si lo son es porque el rico convierte en oro las lágrimas, el sudor y la sangre de los pobres. || The revolution benefits the poor, the ignorant, who all his life has been a slave, the unfortunate who do not know if they are is because the rich becomes the tears, sweat and blood of the poor in gold.
~ Mariano Azuela
La revolución beneficia al pobre, al ignorante, al que toda su vida ha sido esclavo, a los infelices que ni siquiera saben que si lo son es porque el rico convierte en oro las lágrimas, el sudor y la sangre de los pobres...
~ Mariano Azuela
Revolution is necessarily inspired in justice and carries with it the aspiration for justice that every honest man has in his heart.
~ Mariano Azuela
El perdón es el nombre cristiano de la venganza».
~ Unknown
The U.S. penal system has a strong tendency to "level down". The much-heralded "liberal" features of American political culture ironically have helped to render the U.S. penal system harsher, more degrading, and less forgiving as it extends a brute egalitarianism across the board.
~ Unknown
A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
~ Marie Howe
Petty laws breed great crimes.
~ Unknown
Outrage... can (and often does) look like arrogance or offensiveness or, certainly, impropriety. But it can be what fuels love of justice and mercy.
~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.
~ Marilyn French
And the Lord said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?…Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know."(Genesis 18:17, 20–21)
~ Marilyn Hickey
Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity.
~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.
~ Vandana Shiva
Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.
~ Pope Francis
Hunger is not debatable.
~ Harry Hopkins
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
~ Dolores Huerta
It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.
~ Winona LaDuke
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.
~ Vandana Shiva
We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.
~ Sidney Hillman