Quotes About Justice

I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place where I will always strive to be and that is on people's side.

The adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, a team generally regarded as seeking justice, can be compared to the adventures of Rex Stout's two most famous characters, Nero Wolf and Archie Goodwin.

Ask them, then. ...Ask them when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them, when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You want to know something? They won't want us to ask them. They'll just want us to get it.

The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.

And yet the Christian gospel is more than a transcendent reality, more than "going to heaven when I die, to shout salvation as I fly." It is also an immanent reality—a powerful liberating presence among the poor right now in their midst, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side." The gospel is found wherever poor people struggle for justice, fighting for their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The word of God is upon me, [and] it's like fire shut up in my bones. And I just have to tell it." What King had to tell was the truth about war, racism, and poverty. "It may hurt me," he said. "But when I took up the cross I recognized its meaning. . . . It is not something that you wear. The cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on."[38]

any analysis of the gospel which did not begin and end with God's liberation of the oppressed was ipso facto unchristian.

Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence.

If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope.

Never let the law interfere with justice.

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

A kingdom without justice, he memorably observed, was nothing but a very large band of pirates.

Look a'here, some people say we got a lot of malice Some say it's a lotta nerve I say we won't quit moving Til we get what we deserve. We've been 'buked and we've been scourned We've been treated bad, talked about As just as sure as you're born But just as sure as it take Two eyes to make a pair, huh Brother, we can't quit until we get our share. Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

I very little, you cheat big! – Short Round

I fought at Serenity Valley. It ain't about optimism. It's about doin' what's right even when everything's stacked against you.

Fair's fair. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a candy for a candy, a penny for your thoughts.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

You can't be just against communism; you've got to be for something.

God's mercy often comes folded into his justice.

The cross uniquely displays that both Jesus and the Father are committed to justice and mercy, even unto death.

The love of Jesus upholds justice and extends mercy.

His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: "I'm fighting because you're down here."7

God's holiness … puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.