Justice Quotes

"I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave."

Lucretia Mott

"One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap."

Ida B. Wells

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Sarojini Naidu

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice."

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

Ulpian

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

William Blackstone

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."

Saint Augustine

"Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought."

John Rawls

"The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice."

Bryan Stevenson

"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes."

Hannah Arendt

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

James Baldwin

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

Paulo Freire

"Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."

Daniel O'Connell

"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living."

Mother Jones

"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

Montesquieu

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Thucydides

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails... neither persons nor property will be safe."

Frederick Douglass

"Where the king rules with justice, there the seasonal rains and abundant crops abide."

Thiruvalluvar