Quotes About Justice

Justice from Love, and Love from Justice

The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Love is the outlaw's duty.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.