Quotes About Justice

An eye for an eye....we are all blind

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

Violence often brings about momentary results.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.