Quotes About Justice

Facts, like people, want to be free — and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

America is not just a country. It's an idea.

When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

Nuestras bendiciones nunca son el pago por el bien que hemos hecho, y nuestras pruebas nunca son un castigo por los males que hemos cometido.

todos tendemos a ser mejores en hacer cumplir la ley que en extender la gracia.

It's natural to want mercy for yourself but justice for others. It's natural to be very aware of the sin others, yet blind to your own. If we are ever going to be people of mercy, we need bountiful mercy ourselves, because what stands in the way of our being a community of mercy is us.

when you blame other people for your circumstances or for the wrongs that you do, you are, in fact, blaming God. You are saying that God didn't give you what you needed to be what he has called you to be and to do what he has called you to do.

Every human being is in need of a king. All human beings need the rescue, forgiveness, justice, mercy, refuge, and protection that they are unable to give themselves.

He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and willingly submit to his rule.

Sir John, once he

As a politician, if you are really interested in tackling inequality to ensure that as many people as possible have 'just enough', then you need to ensure that the rich stop using, as Stiglitz puts it, 'their political influence to cut taxes and curtail government spending'.

Thomas Merton once said that some of the most violent people he met were social activists, in what they did to themselves.

When our opposition to those we have judged to be the oppressors is so animated by wisdom and compassion, our opposition to what they are doing will always contain an option for their wellbeing. So a preferential option for the poor is also always part of an option for the oppressors. We are also seeking to promote the wellbeing of the oppressors, their happiness, their peace.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

the basis of our preferential option for the poor to say: I accompany them not because they are all good, or because I am all good, but because God is good.

It is with this surety that we must stand with Haiti, a country whose spirit and people will never be broken, and work in solidarity toward the future the Haitian people deserve.

Managing inequality almost never includes higher standards of care for those whose agency has been constrained, whether by poverty or by prison bars.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.