Quotes About Justice

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.

Sympathy of victims and humanity of us question the stronghold of integrity towards justice.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Terror is an emanation of virtue.

Precisamos de um senso de justiça, mas precisamos também de senso comum, de imaginação, de uma capacidade profunda de imaginar o outro, às vezes de nos colocarmos na pele do outro. Precisamos da capacidade racional de nos comprometer e, às vezes, de fazer sacrifícios e concessões. p. 53

That's how God created us: wealth is a crime and poverty is a punishment, though the punishment is not given to the one who sinned, but to the one who hasn't got the money to escape the punishment. The woman, naturally, cannot deny that she is pregnant. The man denies it as much as he likes, and what can you do? God gave men the pleasure and us the punishment.

The crime is the punishment.

Justice without compassion isn't justice; it's an abattoir.