Justice Quotes

"A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons."

"Justice is like a train that is nearly always late."

"Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board."

"If I didn't find art valuable, I would stop doing my work and only work for justice."

"I will be a broken record for justice."

"I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice."

"The punishment online mobs can mete out is often disproportionate."

"I will not tolerate injustice."

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

"Truth is powerful and it prevails."

Sojourner Truth

"Truth is truth to the end of reckoning."

"Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long."

"Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color."

Frederick Douglass

"Truth is on the march and nothing will stop it."

Émile Zola

"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."

Theodore Parker

"Justice is truth in action."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim."

Elie Wiesel

"If you want peace, work for justice."

Pope Paul VI

"True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice."

Jane Addams

"Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds."

"In times of war, the law falls silent."

Cicero

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it."

"When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice."

Sarojini Naidu

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."

Ida B. Wells