Quotes About Justice

I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn't we be able to take it back if we have the power to?

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.