Quotes About Justice

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.

Never lose hope, though everything's bleak, though you feel so weak. Never shrink back, never look back, especially when you know that you're fighting for the right reasons, for the right people.

Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.