Justice Quotes

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. (Jane Addams, 1860-1935)

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent. (Confucius, 551-478 b.c.)

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. (Clarence Darrow, 1857-1938)

Justice is truth in action. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881)

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. (Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895)

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. (Anatole France, 1844-1924)

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968)

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968)

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America. (John L. Lewis, 1880-1969)

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then, when sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865)

Just as, in fact there can be no peace without order so there can be no order without justice. (Pope Pius XII, 1876-1958)

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? (Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1964)

The history of the world is the world's court of justice. (Friedrich Von Schiller, 1759-1805)

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918)

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. (Gloria Steinem, 1934)

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. (Walt Whitman, 1819-1892)

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. (Marian Wright Edelman, 1939)

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