Quotes about Justice
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— Thomas Jefferson
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
— Frederick Buechner
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
— Desmond Tutu
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
— Malcolm X
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
— Thomas Jefferson
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The political is personal.
— Gloria Steinem