Quotes about Justice
Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.
— Billie Jean King
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.
— Leymah Gbowee
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.
— Mike Huckabee
I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
— Tertullian
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
— Abraham Lincoln
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
— Desmond Tutu
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
— John Calvin
How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
— Khalil Gibran