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30 Quotes of Justice
Justice: the quality of being fair and reasonable
As you continue on your path towards living a happy life full of gratitude and love, use these quotes in your daily practice.
1. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel
2. “Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
– I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
– I shall fear only God.
– I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
– I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
– I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
3. “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin
4. “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara
5. “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire
6. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
7. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker
8. “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West
9. “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
10. “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Bryan Stevenson
11. “If you read someone else’s diary, you get what you deserve.”
― David Sedaris
12. “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
13. “For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
― G.K. Chesterton
14. “Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo
15. “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
― Confucius
16. “I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin…”
― Malcolm X
17. “Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.”
― Wendell Berry
18. “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
― Albert Camus
19. “Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
― George Bernard Shaw
20. “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
― William Penn
21. “The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving. It’s when mercy is least expected that it’s most potent—strong enough to break the cycle of victimization and victimhood, retribution and suffering. It has the power to heal the psychic harm and injuries that lead to aggression and violence, abuse of power, mass incarceration.”
― Bryan Stevenson
22. “Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
― Margaret Atwood
23. “But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”
― Robert Jordan
24. “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.”
― Howard Zinn
25. “Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
― Isaiah Berlin
26. “Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― William Gaddis
27. “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
― Victor Hugo
28. “Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri
29. “Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.”
― Bryant McGill
30. “Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”
― Terry Goodkind
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