50 Justice Quotes – Quotes About Justice And Fairness
Looking for the best justice quotes? These 50 epic justice quotes will show you what true justice and fairness is all about.
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The following quotes about justice will instantly warm your heart.
These justice quotes will also make you realise what TRUE justice and fairness looks like.
Let me share with you the most inspiring, loveliest justice quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 justice quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
JUSTICE QUOTES
1 – If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. Desmond Tutu
2 – In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist. Angela Davis
3 – There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice. Chris Hedges
4 – Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say ‘truth’ and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense. Anatole France
5 – We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands. Adolfo Perez Esquivel
6 – Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. Benjamin Franklin
7- You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X
8 – There is but one thing of real value – to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men. Marcus Aurelius
9 – When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall… think of it, always. Mahatma Gandhi
10 – No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Nelson Mandela
JUSTICE QUOTES
11 – If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you recognize that your liberation and mine are bound up together, we can walk together. Lilla Watson
12 – It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people. Martin Luther King Jr.
13 – The worst form of injustice is pretended justice. Plato
14 – I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against. Malcolm X
15 – The righteous man departs, but his light remains. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
16 – Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr.
17- We can’t save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people, especially those most often unheard. Leah Thomas
18 – An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
19 – We will not be able to make up in eternity what we have done to the animals. Mark Twain
20 – As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. Martin Luther King Jr
JUSTICE QUOTES
21 – Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. Denis Diderot
22 – Justice delayed is justice denied. William Ewart Gladstone
23 – As long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, the problem is not solved. Oprah Winfrey
24 – Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… These are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. Ban Ki-moon
25 – Justice is neither for sale nor affordable. Franz Kern
26 – A just goal cannot be achieved by unjust means. Petra Kelly
27- Justice is nothing else but the charity of the wise man. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
28 – I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. Malcolm X
29 – The world has enough for everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed. Mahatma Gandhi
30 – Quick reminder: Kindness and justice are not synonymous. Be kind. And advocate and work for justice. Lives depend on it. Bernice King
JUSTICE QUOTES
31 – Law without justice is a wound without a cure. William Scott Downey
32 – Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr
33 – Without justice there can be no love. Bell Hook
34 – Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. Malcolm X
35 – It takes no compromise to give people their rights… it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression. Harvey Milk
36 – All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston Churchill
37- Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations. Bernice King
38 – Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other — that my liberty depends on you being free too. Barack Obama
39 – It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire
40 – No true love without justice and no true justice without love. Adolph Kolping
JUSTICE QUOTES
41 – Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. Bryan Stevenson
42 – Nothing ever outrages more than injustice. All the other evils we endure are nothing compared to it. Immanuel Kant
43 – Right is what serves freedom. Thomas Dehler
44 – The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme. Pope Benedict XVI
45 – Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. Cornel West
46 – 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
47- An unjust peace is better than a just war. Tullius Cicero
48 – We have a right to protest for what is right. That’s all we can do. There are people hurting, there are people suffering, so we have an obligation, a mandate, to do something. John Lewis
49 – Justice without mercy is little more than inhumanity. Albert Camus
50 – Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Frances Vidakovic
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