Quotes About Justice

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was legal and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was illegal. It was illegal to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.

I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.

It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That's the problem. "The Minister to the Valley," February 23, 1968

As a consequence of combining direct and legal action, far-reaching precedents were established, which served, in turn, to extend the areas of desegregation. Why We Can't Wait, 1963

They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderer.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop. - Tupolski

Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski

Bobby You could throw the book at the cow. Billy I would rather to read the book, Bobby. Bobby It takes all kinds, as they say.

God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.

Unfortunately, Sir Gerald, people rarely get what they deserve in this life. Perhaps that is why we have had to invent a heaven. - Miss Blythe, A Precious Jewel

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be build on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

el castigo sólo produce placer a quien lo administra si la víctima tiene tiempo de conocer sus principales detalles y la personalidad de su ejecutor.

The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account

Use your powers! Go to the scene of the crime! See the people concerned! Leave no stone unturned! In all your career you have never had so great a chance of serving your country.

You don't mind breaking the law?" "Not in the least." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Not in a good cause.

Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.

Are you in the police yourself?" "No." "What business is it of yours, then?" "It's every man's business to see justice done.