Quotes About Justice

Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

Everyone is called to live their lives right now in the kingdom of God, to practice now as if they were already in the fullness of the presence of the God of peace. As we do, we will reject every form of violence, from war and executions to racism and sexism to nuclear weapons and corporate greed to destructive behavior to the creatures and Mother Earth.

Paul opposed Rome with Christ against Caesar, not because that empire was particularly unjust or oppressive, but because he questioned the normalcy of civilization itself, since civilization has always been imperial, that is, unjust and oppressive.

The heart of God's justice is to make sure that the "weak and the orphan" have received their share of God's resources for them to live and thrive. Retributive justice comes in only when that ideal is violated.

To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice is to worship God.

Justice without love is brutality. Love without justice is banality.

God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Nature hath no gaol, though she hath law.

The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error." -John Dos Passos

The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, small farmers were being squeezed out, workingmen were working twelve hours a day for a bare living; profits were for the rich, the law was for the rich, the cops were for the rich;

One phrase stuck in Fainy's mind, and he repeated it to himself after he had gone to bed that night: It is time for all honest men to band together to resist the ravages of greedy privilege.

While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you . . .

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

Feminism is what I do with my life, it's how I spend my days, it's my job, it's not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.