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Quotes About Justice

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.
~ Thomas Paine
Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.
~ Ramsey Clark
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.
~ Pierre Bayle
Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.
~ Pope Leo X
In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .
~ William J. Clinton
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
~ Erwin McManus
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
~ George Washington
The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
~ Aneurin Bevan
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
~ Alan Lomax
The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.
~ John Stott
I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.
~ Wendell Willkie
Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
~ Robin Morgan
We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.
~ Martin Schulz
The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
~ John Bunyan
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
~ Steve Allen
The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
~ William Penn
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
~ Augustine of Hippo
Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.
~ Alice Schwarzer
God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?
~ Eddie Izzard
This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.
~ Elie Wiesel, Night
It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.
~ Ludwig Bemelmans
Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.
~ Remi Kanazi