Quotes About Justice

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

There is no strength without justice.

Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

The strength of the saviour is much more than the strength of the person who kills.

For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return to that. Malcolm wanted to inspire other people to find their own strength.

A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.

Don't give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.