Quotes on Justice

Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.

Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.

It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.

A precedent embalms a principle.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose us. But even more than that, we are true believers in the whole idea of justice. Justice is so much on our side, that that is going to see us through.

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.

Justice delayed is democracy denied.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.