Quotes About Justice

God does not play favorites.

Before presenting the grace of God,we must understand the wrath of God.

God is angry at the evil that ruins his children. The question is not, "How dare a loving God be angry?" but rather, "How could a loving God feel anything less?

His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.

She's an aristocrat who advocates –words worn across centuries—for women's rights.

Adopt the motto—It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.

The needs of a society determine its ethics

You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

There is nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.

See you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing you do it without thinking.

Annie, everybody has a policy. In this world you have to have a policy. Now, my policy is I don't treat colored people.

The man who is a bigot, is the worst thing God has got, except his match, his woman, who really is Ms. Begot.

Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the glorious task of reclaiming the soul and saving the honor of the country. We, the most hated, must take hate into our hands and by the miracle of love, turn loathing into love. We, the most feared and apprehensive must take fear and by love, change it into hope. We, who die daily in large and small ways, must take the demon death and turn it into life.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing's wrong with going to jail for something you believe in. Remember, jail was made for people. Not horses.

I should have known better than to lie to the government. People always said Uncle Sam would spend a thousand dollars to get you if you stole a three-cent stamp from him. He was more revengeful than God.

Ev'ry Voice and Sing"—words by James Weldon Johnson and music by J. Rosamond Johnson. Copyright by Edward B. Marks Music Corporation. Used by permission.