Quotes About Justice

His headstone said Free at last, Free at last - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free

Freedom is never given, it is won.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.