Justice Quotes

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Struggle, Human, Sacrifice

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice, Anywhere, Threat

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Great, Hope, Freedom

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Sleep, Country

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, Hope, Lies

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Universe, Moral, Arc

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein

Truth, Small, Same

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Law, Become, Purpose

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln

Found, Mercy, Strict

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi

Conscience, Higher, Court

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller

Great, Sense, Until

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
Malcolm X

Truth, Matter, Against

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle

Best, Law, Worst

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Law, Surrender

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X

Freedom, Equality, Give

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

Society, Ignorance, Poverty

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Alone, Cannot, Both

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

Islam, Human, America

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mahatma Gandhi

Win, Party, Quickest

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil Gibran

Power, Political, Thousands

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington

Faith, Peace, Good

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle

Wisdom, Virtue, Moderation

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby

Peace, Parents, Quiet

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Plato

Men, Business, Means

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau

Sweet, Injustice, Musical

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, May, Concerned

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens

Good, Live, End

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Frank Serpico

End, Fight, Children

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
George Washington

Government, Firmest, Pillar

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

Knowledge, Wisdom, Rather

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