Quotes about Justice
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.
— George W. Bush
I desire to know wherefore I am banished?
— Anne Hutchinson
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
— Ambrose of Milan
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A person's zip code shouldn't decide their destiny.
— Barack Obama
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
— Barack Obama
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
— GK Chesterton
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
— Herman Melville
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
— Edmund Burke