Quotes About Justice

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

But does one not, when coming out of an Italian film, feel better, an urge to change the order of things, preferably by persuading people, at least those who can be persuaded, whom only blindness, prejudice, or ill-fortune had led to harm their fellow men?

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

Elle ne comprenait pas qu'une partie de ce peuple en haillons n'eût rien à faire en ce lieu. Comment Dieu pouvait-il choisir ceux-ci plutôt que ceux-là ? Ce Dieu des uns et pas des autres, comment l'admettre, comment le vivre ?

No se asocien íntimamente con los que son incrédulos. ¿Cómo puede la justicia asociarse con la maldad? ¿Cómo puede la luz vivir con las tinieblas? ¿Qué armonía puede haber entre Cristo y el diablo? ¿Cómo puede un creyente asociarse con un incrédulo?».11

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Do you blame the sword for killing? It is the hand and brain behind it which holds the responsibility!

Join us in our pursuit for what is right in God's eyes.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to do to other men what men habitually, proudly, manfully do to women: use them as inanimate, empty, concave things; fuck them into submission; subordinate them through sex.

Why you wan' the whole world when ya have a likkle piece a hope here? Stay. Stay and fight, man. Fight till you look 'pon what you wan' see.

I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period. You'd just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.

I mean, if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period.

Although at the time I didn't realize this, the Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev had begun promoting 'glasnost' or political openness throughout the Soviet Union, and everywhere Ukrainians were debating the justice of Soviet domination over our country. Finally, the citizens of Ukraine were beginning to realize that Moscow was destroying their environment and endangering their lives.

Even the reverend did: visiting Martin Luther King in his parsonage, soon after his home had been bombed, a journalist was about to sink into an armchair when he was alerted to a couple of loaded guns on it. 'Just for self-defence,' King explained.

The civil rights movement won the Act of 1964 because it had a radical flank that made it appear as a lesser evil in the eyes of state power.

Property destruction still happens – it's just done by the wrong people for very wrong causes.

Disease, in the Gandhian view, results from impurity and must be allowed to do its cleansing work, and the same goes for extreme weather and earthquakes: with unusual consistency, the mahatma preached that victims of such events had it coming.

Not only do the rich make our lives miserable, they are working to terminate the lives of multitudes.

Isn't suffering unearned by the victims precisely what is so morally repugnant about the unfolding crisis? If so, why make it a virtue?

The anti-slavery movement only took off once white people in Europe and America began to see people of African descent not as property but as people.