Justice Quotes

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William Blum: “The 'trickle-down' theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.”

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Arnold Toynbee: “The best safeguard against fascism is to establish social justice to the maximum extent possible.”

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Henry Ward Beecher: “That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.”

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A. Philip Randolph: “Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. ”

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Julia Ward Howe: “The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”

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Albert Camus: “Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

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Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow: “One of the most powerful, and deeply spiritual, ways to work for social change is for us to take action in the present that embodies -- right now! -- the future vision that we seek”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident. ”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

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Rabbi Tarfon: “Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”

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Robert S. McElvaine: “Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to believe that the common good requires that social justice be given a higher priority than absolute economic freedom.”

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James Baldwin: “For these are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become,”

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Matthew Fox: “Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies.”

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Mark Twain: “The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.”

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Paulo Freire: “Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.”

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John Kerry: “Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.”

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Thomas Paine: “ I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.”

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Robert G. Ingersoll: “In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.”

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Thomas Paine: “We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.”

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John Stuart Mill: “As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”

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Reinhold Niebuhr: “Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

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Bishop Desmond Tutu: “I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.”

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Marquis de Lafayette: “Until the infallibility of human judgment shall have been proved to me, I shall persist in demanding the abolition of the death penalty.”