Justice Quotes · Page 118

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably…

— Vincent de Paul

Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.

— Tom Price

“expedience could not take precedence over the pursuit of justice.”

— Jessica Shattuck

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

— Van Jones

One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with…

— Alexandra Ripley

“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” (5:24).”

— Anonymous

I don't want to coexist. I want to exist as a human being. And justice will take care of the rest.

— Remi Kanazi

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

— J. B. Morton

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

Biblical righteousness is more than a private and personal affair; it includes social righteousness as well…Thus Christians are committed to hunger for…

— John Stott

Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God.

— Louis Farrakhan

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all…

— Moliere

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social…

— Upton Sinclair

As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue,…

— Francis Quarles

“For Christians, then, Christ’s justification, given with his resurrection, becomes theirs. When they are united to the resurrected and justified Christ by…

— Richard B. Jr. Gaffin

More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts…

— George Washington

There's a whole pipeline for where people recruit current Hill staff from, and it's people who go through a kind of ideological…

— Saikat Chakrabarti

We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“In 1963 activists demanding racial justice forced President Kennedy to come out for civil rights legislation. Within a year and a half…

— James T. Patterson

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from…

— Douglas William Jerrold

May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.…

— Albert Einstein

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

— Kofi Annan

“So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!”

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“It is a compulsion, a spell we are all experiencing, the need to see justice done and someone put to death.”

— John Ellsworth

May your appalling St. Patrick's Day behavior not end up in a massive viral video demanding you be brought to justice.

— Anonymous

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

— Johann Arndt

Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.

— William Hazlitt

I think it's good for sporting justice that Ronaldo scored twice in the final.

— Just Fontaine

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

— Tullian Tchividjian

“The Supreme Court justices are able to decide fewer than 1 percent of all the appeals”

— James Duane

May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.

— Mwai Kibaki

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

— Han Fei

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.

— Aubrey Thomas de Vere

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

— Thomas Aquinas

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

— Matthew Arnold

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 5:10

— Bible