Quotes About Justice

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.

You cannot run a scociety or cope with it's problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the administrators should not suck the blood of the poor.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.

What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.