Justice Quotes - page 91

I support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994 because I believe that freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. (Coretta Scott King)
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. View quote
Gloria Steinem
I think most social justice movements take the words that are used against them and make them good words. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often. View quote
Nora Roberts
I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice. View quote
Muriel Spark
Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law. View quote
Robin Hobb
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. View quote
Jodi Picoult
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time. View quote
Dionne Warwick
Justice is horrible. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice? View quote
Voltairine de Cleyre
We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. (Benito Mussolini)
Within our country, ultimate decisions are made through democratic means, which tend to moderate radical or ill-advised proposals. Constrained and inspired by historic constitutional principles, our nation has endeavored for more than two hundred years to follow the now almost universal ideals of freedom, human rights, and justice for all. View quote
Jimmy Carter
We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented. View quote
Jimmy Carter
No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice. View quote
Jimmy Carter
The best excuse for the fallen ones is that Madame Justice herself is one of them. View quote
Alfred Nobel
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom. View quote
Nawal El Saadawi
What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers. View quote
Nawal El Saadawi
[Peace must be] founded on truth, built according to justice, vivified and integrated by charity, and put into practice in freedom. View quote
Pope John XXIII
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
He the robe of justice wore, Sully'd not, as heretofore, When the magistrate was sought With yearly gifts. Of what avail Are guilty hoards? for life is frail; And we are judg'd where favour is not bought. View quote
Ambrose Philips
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. (Jeane Kirkpatrick)
From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." Blood does not wipe our dishonor, Nor violence indicate possession. View quote
Julia Ward Howe
As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Well I got a hammer, And I got a bell, And I got a song to sing, all over this land. It's the hammer of Justice, It's the bell of Freedom, It's the song about Love between my brothers and my sisters, All over this land. View quote
Pete Seeger
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice people just get good luck or bad luck. View quote
Orson Welles