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Quotes About Justice

...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.
~ Carol Bellamy
I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.
~ Kailash Satyarthi
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means
~ Walter Rodney
In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future - for everyone.
~ Salma Hayek
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
~ Desmond Tutu
Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.
~ Christian Morgenstern
Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
~ Bill Gates
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
~ Tom Cruise
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.
~ Nelson Mandela
Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.
~ Lech Walesa
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
~ Elie Wiesel
The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.
~ Lactantius
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
~ Jane Goodall
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
~ Edmund Burke
I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.
~ Yip Harburg
But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
~ Debbie Harry
Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.
~ Noel Ignatiev
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
~ Hakim Bey
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.
~ Gustav Landauer
I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.
~ Eugene V. Debs