Quotes About Justice

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Life's not fair; why should I be?

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

Following the Leslie Charteris novels and the film portrayals by suave George Sanders, the radio Saint righted wrongs and aided victims of crime when the law was rendered powerless by restrictive procedure. The Saint simply broke the law, if the result justified it.

The imprecatory psalms are for us to pray, who are not victims. Indeed, if we do not want to pray them, it raises questions about the shallowness of our own spirituality, theology and ethics. Do we not want to see wrongdoers put down and punished? One

A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.

He invites us to eat Him up—to get Him and His Word into our gut, into our nerve endings, our reflexes, and our bloodstream such that He naturally flows out of our lives in acts of love and holiness, healing, evangelism, and justice.26 This is resolute feasting, the central act of the soul. Not pecking around the margins. Not nibbling as you would a snack.

Love and justice mingle, truth and mercy meet

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

I think we ought to let him [Patrick Gray] hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

Law-abiding citizens and people with good political connections stand their ground.

To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country… Life is unfair.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.