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Quotes About Justice

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
~ Phaedrus
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
~ Bianca Jagger
Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.
~ Gloria Allred
No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.
~ Joel Sternfeld
No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
~ Kate Brown
'Cartel Land' seeks to give voice to the people of Mexico who suffer grievous harm from cartel violence and government corruption.
~ Matthew Heineman
I hope we can form a community where a woman can speak up about abuse and not suffer another abuse by not being believed and instead being ridiculed.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
Children shouldn't have to suffer for any reason.
~ Lil Jon
Not wanting to suffer criticism, the judiciary has used its power of contempt to stifle criticism.
~ Prashant Bhushan
I am not Donald Trump. I cannot see my people suffer in front of my eyes.
~ Uddhav Thackeray
President Obama should pardon Leonard Peltier, or at least commute his sentence, not just for humanitarian reasons, but also as a way of acknowledging the injustice suffered by Native Americans.
~ John Densmore
There will be occasions when someone has suffered a crime where it is either obvious that they are not looking for an investigation or that there are no investigative opportunities and you just have to be up front about that.
~ Cressida Dick
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
~ Nelson Mandela
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
~ Lucy Stone
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
~ Plato
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
~ Norman Mailer
First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
~ Jack Kevorkian
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
~ Aleksander Kwasniewski
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
~ Aeschylus
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.
~ Sonita Alizadeh
As we draw bad fumes into our nostrils, let our suffering lungs issue a call to serious action. Let's fight for all, not just some Indians to breathe and live free.
~ Rohini Nilekani
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
~ John Dalberg-Acton
I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.
~ Hugh Mackay