Quotes about Justice
Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
— Oscar Wilde
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
— Aristotle
What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.
— Bob Marley
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.
— Malcolm X
What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
— Mother Teresa
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
— Tim LaHaye