Quotes About Justice

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people.

So much of what Christ's teachings are about have to do with the way that we take care of the least among us.

If I feel as though myself or my teammates have been dealt a wrong hand, I'm going to let it be known.

I'll kill her, you know. The queen, not Natalie. Screw the guardians. I'll do it. She can't get away with that.

you're beautiful in battle', said Dimitri. His cold voice carried to me clearly, even above the roar of combat. 'Like an avenging angel come to deliver the justice of heaven.' "Funny", I said, shifting my hold on the stake. "That is kind of why I'm here." "Angels fall, Rose.

It's probably some kind of karmic way to balance out the universe. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to have one person so full of awesomeness.

Se le credenze di qualcuno non fanno del male al prossimo, non credo che quel qualcuno debba essere punito.

I got the impression that if she had been taken advantage of—and Dimitri found out who was responsible—there were going to be some serious consequences.

You know, we've finally made it. We did it this time. They'll never be able to hide us again.

Yalta can be seen as neither the portal to Roosevelt's "world of justice and equity" nor a disgraceful capitulation to red fascism but, rather, an intricate nexus of compromises by East and West. Roosevelt "largely followed through on earlier plans, and gained most of what he wished," the historian Robert Dallek concluded

Yet here surely was victor's justice, tinged with the sour smell of sanctimony, a reminder that honor and dishonor often traveled in trace across a battlefield, and that even a liberator could come home stained if not befouled.

Night would end, the tide would turn, and on that turning tide an army would wash ashore in Africa, ready to right a world gone wrong.

Edmund S. Morgan would write (in respect to the Declaration of Independence), "The creed of equality did not give men equality, but invited them to claim it, invited them, not to know their place and keep it, but to seek and demand a better place.

a man should not be cruel to things weaker than himself

No honorable man has just cause to fear a lawfully armed woman.

We are at war with the wicked: rapists, murderers, home-invaders, and robbers. There are no bystanders - only victims.

They reported how when he took over as president of Phoenix Country Club in 1949, he said if they didn't allow his friend Harry Rosenzweig to join he would blackball every name. Rosenzweig became the first Jew the club ever admitted. Left out of the tale was that another Jew wasn't allowed in for a decade.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

If you'll cheat to win at golf, is it that much further to cheat to win an election? To turn a Congressional vote? To stop an investigation? If you'll lie about every aspect of the game, is it that much further to lie about your taxes, your relationship with Russians, your groping of women? If you're adamant that the poor don't deserve golf, is it that much further to think they don't deserve health care, clean air, safe schools?

Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

Feed the hungry and you're a saint, ask why they are hungry and you're a communist.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.