Quotes By Catogory
“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.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice”.
—Montesquieu
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
―J.R.R. Tolkien
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst”.
—Aristotle
“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for”.
―J.K. Rowling
“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
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals”.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.”
—Bernice King
“Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other — that my liberty depends on you being free too.”
—Barack Obama
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same”.
—Albert Einstein
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
—Angela Davis
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you recognize that your liberation and mine are bound up together, we can walk together.”
—Lilla Watson
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
―Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom”.
—Clarence Darrow
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
―Ernesto Che Guevara
“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them”.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary”.
—Reinhold Niebuhr
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
―Theodore Parker
“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option — for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.”
—John Lewis
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph”.
—Haile Selassie
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
―Cornel West
“The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law”.
—Robert Kennedy
“It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it”.
—Maya Angelou
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice”.
—Baruch Spinoza
Justice delayed is justice denied.
—William E. Gladstone
“Quote of the month”
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
BSO Kpechi
Inspirational Speaker
