Explore Quotes on Justice

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in (Military Justice Improvement Act) that is inconsistent with the responsibility or authority of command. Your efforts in this regard have much broader implications that will actually strengthen the 'good order and discipline' of our military, which I believe accounts for much of the resistance that S967 is receiving...Protecting the victims of these abuses and restoring American values to our military culture is long overdue.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.