Justice Quotes · Page 337

Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls…

— James A. Baldwin

Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different…

— John Haynes Holmes

“We don’t want people to understand forgiveness or prayer or mission or justice only intellectually. We want people who can forgive, who…

— Mike Breen

“Dear heavenly Father, blessed are those who hear Your Word and fear You, for they seek Your grace and righteousness. Move us…

— Anonymous

“Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to change the mindset which has tended to create ad hoc solutions for the…

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The…

— Thomas Jefferson

You can't expect to go about change - especially change of this nature, when you talk about racial equality and justice -…

— Malcolm Jenkins

“The list of what righteousness does is a list of things that most people would want: it delivers from death (see Proverbs…

— Jessica Nicholas

“Being a holy people included seeking justice. The Sabbath and Jubilee Year practices gave everyone equal rights, freedom, and second chances. Slaves…

— Doris Rikkers

We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's…

— George W. Bush

It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from…

— John Goodlad

“I also believe that to truly win back that trust, criminal justice professionals like myself, together with Americans of all shapes, sizes,…

— Burke Strunsky

To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air,…

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we…

— Robert Kennedy

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for…

— Virginia Woolf

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation…

— Erich Fromm

“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a…

— Baha'u'llah

“I have seen a land shining with goodness, where each man protects his brother's dignity as readily as his own, where war…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship…

— John Shelton Reed

The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble…

— William Hazlitt

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,…

— Richard Rohr

I think even though the court is moving toward trying to translate the Constitution into a digital age, there was that wonderful…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“What is the use of whining to me about your difficulties? If you are proceeding on the Enemy’s idea of ‘justice’ and…

— C.S. Lewis

We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves,…

— Mark Twain

The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final…

— Jimmy Carter

“Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgment…

— Steven Erikson

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful…

— Aristotle

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What…

— Victor Hugo

“Fo’ it be so clear to me now, with my family being black an white, that though we blacks have it very…

— Christina Carson

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were…

— Robert H. Jackson

“Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!" "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered…

— Terry Pratchett

Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is…

— Rebecca West

Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted…

— Edwin Gaustad

“They speak as if it was some how beneficial to an African to work for them instead for himself and to make…

— Jomo Kenyatta

Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in…

— Joseph Alleine

“Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation…

— V.S. Carnes

President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I…

— Robert Kennedy

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled…

— W. E. B. Du Bois