Quotes about Justice

At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.

Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.

But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions of impoverished white men and women who were treated as second-class citizens.

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.

The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.