Quotes about Justice
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
— Margaret Mead
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
— William Law
The time is always right to do what is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
— Sojourner Truth
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is always the right time to do the right thing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's time for women to stop being politely angry.
— Leymah Gbowee
Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.
— Oscar Romero
It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.
— Martin Niemoller