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Quotes About Justice

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
~ Francis Bacon
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
~ Tom T. Hall
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.
~ Solomon Northup
At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.
~ Indra Sinha, Animal's People
Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?
~ Rick Warren
I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.
~ Binyavanga Wainaina
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.
~ Thomas Paine
A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
~ Benjamin Franklin
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
~ Malcolm X
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.
~ John Adams
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.
~ Charles James Fox
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
~ Daniel Webster
No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.
~ Tim Soutphommasane
I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.
~ David D. Cole
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
~ Euripides
When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.
~ Francis Bacon