Quotes about Justice
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
— Thomas Merton
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.
— Mother Teresa
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.
— Oscar Romero
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The cry for peace will increase according to scripture.
— David Wilkerson
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
— Abraham Lincoln
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
— St. Thomas Aquinas