Quotes About Justice

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.

On this earth there is that which deserves life.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.