Quotes About Justice

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.

Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.

(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a 'No,' sweetens truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

I met this guy who said he loved children, then I found out he was on parole for it.