Quotes About Justice

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.

If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.

I don't like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn't have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

Our laws are too lax, our justice system too weak - particularly when it comes to violent, dangerous offenders.

It's time Pakistani women are able to stand up and hold their oppressors accountable, no matter how strong or influential they are. Don't be scared. They are strong because we are weak - lets change that.

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.

Christians do not say that people should be reduced merely to what they can produce or what they can buy - that we should let the weak go under and only the strong survive. No, we say, 'Do to others what you would have them do unto you.'

When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.