Quotes About Justice

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Forgiveness does not replace justice.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.

an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.