Quotes About Justice

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Absolute liberty, just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty, is the thing that we stand in need of.

Democracy is the Freedom of Humanity in all aspects of Life.

You may be condemned and sentenced to death by WORDS but if your Inner Conscience is clear, it will justify your innocence and uphold your Freedom within.

Liberate yourself with the idea that you can be free from the chains of oppression.

I might not be the same but that's not important. No freedom til we're equal. Damn right I support it.

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power, honor and success. When we cling to personal power and success, when we are afraid of loosing social status, then we are in some way denying our humanity; we become slaves to our own needs, we are not free.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to believe that the common good requires that social justice be given a higher priority than absolute economic freedom.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

Freedom is not enough.

We will go to the sun of freedom or to the death; if we die, our cause will continue living.

Je hais vos idées, mais je me ferait tuer pour que vous ayez le droit de les exprimer. I hate your ideas, but I would have myself killed so that you could have the right to expres them.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleepi

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.