Quotes About Justice

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?

but until a feminist consciousness emerges, it is easy to be blind to misogyny and its far-reaching implications

Inequality is expensive for two reasons, one connected with justice and one with efficiency.

It is also difficult to define the boundaries within which we judge inequality.

Human rights and freedoms protect us against arbitrary government.

to create true equality of opportunity,

A people, Dr Alison had said, should be judged by the way they treated those weaker than themselves.

Bloody right I feel I'm entitled to express an opinion! What's going on here is a crime against humanity! What the hell do these women think they're playing at? Trying to rewrite history? Make it into her-story?

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution; it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal.

The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

The weak and the poor are for us a source of unity. Jesus came into the world to change and transform society from a "pyramid" in which the strong and clever dominate at the top, into a "body", where each member of society has a place, is respected and is important.

The next chapter is about belonging: the essential need we have to be and to share with others. The human heart is a place of freedom. We can be obliged to follow the law but not to love, because "true love casts out fear." Our society grows in justice and peace as we allow energies of love and concern for all to rise up in ourselves.

when we women get our rights, you men will have to look alive in order to keep yours.

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.

for every wickedness, there is an equal and opposite possibility of redemption.

The unsolved-crime rate in Mexico is well north of 90 percent. The costumed existence of la policía provides the necessary counterillusion to the fact of the cartel's actual impunity.

Because fear and corruption work in tandem to censor the people who might otherwise discover the clues that would point to justice. There will be no evidence, no due process, no vindication

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.