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Quotes About Justice

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
~ Khalil Gibran
It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.
~ Marc Veasey
Men of honor, men of God in a healthy society, stand in defense of justice
~ Sunday Adelaja
[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.
~ Clarence Darrow
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
~ Nelson Mandela
History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme
~ Seamus Heaney
Hope is the seed of liberation.
~ Jon Sobrino
Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.
~ Will Tuttle
The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope.
~ Benjamin Watson
Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.
~ David Sirota
The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.
~ Joshua Wong
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.
~ John Marshall
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.
~ George Washington
Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.
~ Pope Francis
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
~ Philip Sidney
Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
~ Langston Hughes
I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.
~ Friedrich Schiller
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
~ Barack Obama