Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

27299 quotes

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"The fields belong to those who work them."
César Chávez
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"Every worker deserves respect, fair wages, and safe conditions."
César Chávez
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"Jesus spent more time with the poor than anyone else, yet we've made Christianity comfortable for the rich."
Shane Claiborne
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"We cannot follow Jesus while maintaining systems of oppression and inequality."
Shane Claiborne
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"Solidarity with the poor is not charity; it's justice."
Shane Claiborne
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"The margins are where the real church happens, where the least are cared for."
Shane Claiborne
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"The church's silence on injustice is complicity with injustice."
Shane Claiborne
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"The church must stand with the oppressed, not with those who oppress them."
Shane Claiborne
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"The gospel demands that we take sides with those society has forgotten."
Shane Claiborne
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"The church should be a place of abundance for all, not privilege for some."
Shane Claiborne
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"God is not a homophobe, and the church needs to stop being one."
Rob Bell
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"We're all implicated in systems of injustice, and that's where transformation begins."
Rob Bell
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"We all have a responsibility to use our voices for the voiceless."
Rob Bell
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"When we listen to what has been marginalized, we hear God's voice."
Rob Bell
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"Justice is love in action."
Henri Nouwen
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"Justice requires compassion."
Henri Nouwen
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"Justice that doesn't address the suffering of the poor is just a word we use to make ourselves feel better."
Tony Campolo
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"Justice requires us to see the other person's humanity as fully as we see our own."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"We are called to protect the vulnerable and challenge the powerful."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"We must stop thinking of religion as something private and personal, disconnected from justice."
Richard Rohr
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"Justice without love is revolution; love without justice is enabling."
Richard Rohr
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"Justice means giving people what they need, not always what they deserve."
Richard Rohr
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"We are called not to judge, but to understand and serve."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is weakness."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"Justice is the love between equals."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"We are responsible for creating a more just and peaceful world"
Rob Bell
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"Love demands justice and compassion in action"
Rob Bell
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"The work of justice requires patience and persistence"
Rob Bell
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"The future belongs to those willing to do the work for justice"
Rob Bell
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice."
Francis of Assisi