Quotes About Justice

History belongs to the intercessors

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

History is no criminal court

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.