Quotes About Justice

Both biblical principles and historical experience suggest that one important thing we need is the right kind of state intervention to correct the injustice in today's market economies.

Being elected president only emboldened his proclivity for cutting moral corners, being lazy when it comes to doing his job, using others to gratify his ego, attacking those who oppose him, obstructing justice, and lying at every turn.

Regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, never-Trumper, or apolitical, surely we can unite on that front and agree that the objectification and sexualization of girls and women is never acceptable on any level.

Though we fall short, however, we do have a job to do. With respect to government, the Christian's job is to seek justice as described by Old Testament prophets and to care for the sick, the weak and the poor as described by Jesus throughout the early New Testament.

No one will hear our pleas for the unborn if, at the same time, we ignore the devaluation of other marginalized populations outside of the womb.

In every single instance where pre-Constantinian Christian writers mention the topic of killing, they say that Christians do not do that, whether in abortion, capital punishment, or war.76 And Jesus's statement about loving enemies is one of the reasons cited.

Antebellum evangelicals supported prison reform, believing that "compassion must be mingled with severity.

McKnight is right: the "atonement is all about creating a society in which God's will is actualized—on planet earth, in the here and now.

To the extent that we truly believe the promise of Christ's coming victory, the Christian story can again today inspire and energize powerful political movements for justice, peace, life, and freedom.

Sometimes, for a generation or more, injustice, war, totalitarianism, and social evil of all kinds may advance, rather than retreat. Even then, the assurance of Christ's final victory provides hope that sustains our persistent, faithful struggle for justice even when the political tide is sweeping in the other direction.

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.

Christians must be ready to lose politically rather than engage in dishonesty or corruption.

Great economic inequality inevitably produces injustice in a fallen world; therefore Christians must oppose it.

If, as Christians, we continue to enable a pathological liar to remain president, we are going to see greater damage inflicted on the cause of Christ and our God-given authority as Christians to speak out against immorality and injustice.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists)

They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)

This administration is totally colorblind.