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Quotes About Justice

A leader cannot fall prey to the whims of the voices that shout the loudest, but must stand as a voice of reason in defense of the silent.
~ Saminu Kanti
We are born to serve, to find the power of love, and to get what we deserve.
~ Debasish Mridha
This machine kills fascists.
~ Woody Guthrie
There's no point in fighting for the throne if you're not going to make a difference.
~ Rhiannon Thomas
Do not seek power for revenge. Seek power in order to avoid situations that would make you want revenge.
~ Salla Simukka, As Red as Blood
The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.
~ Erik Christian Haugaard
God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God's righteousness
~ Sunday Adelaja
I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.
~ Lierre Keith
I seek no favor untouched by blood.
~ Audre Lorde
We are given a great power, we should capable enough to handle it and use it fair and square.
~ Rhealyn
There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
~ Moira Young, Rebel Heart
I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls. I am going to win.
~ Carolyn Lee Adams, Ruthless
To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.
~ Euripides, Medea
The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.
~ D'Andre Lampkin
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
~ Walter Lippmann
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
~ Honore de Balzac
I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order the judiciary had the power of complete independence justice was fully exercised.
~ Alfredo Stroessner
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
~ Florence Kelley
People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.
~ Ratan Tata
You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.
~ Saint Peter
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
~ Abraham Lincoln