Quotes About Justice

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

The end doesn't justify the means.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

You can only be free if I am free.

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.