Quotes About Justice

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

We forgive but not forgotten

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination," he told the court. "I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal for which I hope to live for and to see realized. But my lord, if it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A minority was not to be crushed by a majority.

Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit.

Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

we fought injustice wherever we found it, no matter how large, or how small, and we fought injustice to preserve our own humanity.

I was a young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

It will forever remain an accusation and a challenge to all men and women of conscience that it took as long as it has, before all of us stood up to say enough is enough.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life." [ Live 8 Concert , Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred,

I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. From a response to an offer of conditional freedom, read by Zindzi Mandela at a rally, Jabulani Stadium, Soweto, South Africa,

Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference.

overcoming fear, personal scarifies for the cause of freedom of all, and ability to see good in your enemies – No one is born hating another person because of the color of your skin, or his background, or his religion … if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.