Justice Quotes · Page 110

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

— Clarence Day

“Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.”

— Cory Booker

“Her eyes mist. Seeking justice will uncover the truth, she affirms, as she hears the main office door click open.”

— Maryann D'Agincourt

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

— Zengzi

“First comes Coke, then asphalt, then power lines, then maybe education, justice, and human rights.”

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“There’s lots of law these days,” she interrupted, “but not much justice.”

— Dean Koontz

If actual victims of discrimination had to wait on the NAACP to see them to justice, they would never get help.

— Dana Loesch

“It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“He threw himself to his knees at the stone and tore his damning testimony from the pages of its testament. He held…

— Wyatt Michael

Law enforcement agents need to be vetted more thoroughly and psychologically and emotionally to see who they are, if they're really built…

— Lynn Whitfield

Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the…

— Veronica Roth

We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His…

— R. C. Sproul

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal…

— Simone Weil

Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of…

— Saadi

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of…

— Tom Lehrer

The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

“Why do we over-estimate love to the disadvantage of justice, and say the most beautiful things about it, as if it were…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege,…

— Jonathan Swift

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets…

— John Dewey

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a…

— Marcus Aurelius

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They…

— David Price

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that…

— Jessica Valenti

Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees…

— Frederick Buechner

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

— Lloyd Alexander

“One finds many injustices in the world, but there is one that is never mentioned, climate.”

— Albert Camus

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

— Robert Browning

Transportation and infrastructure is at the intersection of jobs, climate change, and racial justice.

— Jake Auchincloss

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

— Plato

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

— Angela Davis

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.

— Ilhan Omar

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

— Karl Kraus

I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.

— Kiran Bedi

“Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know?”

— James Lusarde

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

— Lauren Beukes

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

— Donald P. Ryan

Not everyone gets justice in such dramatic fahion,but God's Word promises that God will one day avenge all injustice..

— Mariane Corbito

“My pen is my voice. I write for change. I write for justice.”

— Mitta Xinindlu