Quotes on Justice

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.