Quotes About Justice and Injustice

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

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

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

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Peace without justice is tyranny.

In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.

If you want peace, work for justice.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

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

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Justice is truth in action.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

Justice is never given; it is exacted.

Justice is social happiness. It is happiness guaranteed by a social order.

Justice discriminates according to merit, according to the relevant excellence.

When justice on offenders is not done, Law, government, and commerce, are o'erthrown.

Truth Justice loves, and truth injustice fears,
Truth above all things a just man reveres.

We lay our case before you
Let your hammer fall
Tip the scales of justice
Liberty for all.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

If we won't fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.

There can be racism in a system even if a particular episode of injustice is not a manifestation of that racism. Every single thing in the criminal justice system is not a manifestation of racism, but many things are.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

Men are always invoking justice; and it is justice which should make them tremble.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

Justice is the most political and/or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

Justice like the sunflower hangs its head on the sunny side.

Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.

Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

Whether we are religious or nonreligious, today we can go online to meet the needs once served in religious spaces: to connect, but also to confess our secrets, seek out information, process tragedies, and pursue a more just world.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Early on he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot. America was his country. He would never leave America.

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites.

Far too often, to be charged with a crime is to become something less than human.

The justice system is now just a system.

Race determines everything in the criminal justice system.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

Why are people that poor? Why are people that broke? Why are people that food insecure, that clothing insecure, that they feel like their only shot, that they are shooting their shot by walking through a broken glass window to get what they need?

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

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.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God.

Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

A unjust law, is no law at all.

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring; their lives an example of what every human being has it in them to do -- act from love!

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

More law, less justice.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own.

It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

Better still -- your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal -- if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

Without justice you won't have stability.

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.

I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution -- nor by the courts -- nor by the officers of the law -- nor by the lawyers -- but by the men and women who constitute our society -- who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

I think there needs to be a range of justices, of all types. You can't just pick one type.

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

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.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

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

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

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?

Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society -- and well worth fighting for.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

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

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.