Justice Quotes

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

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"Justice delayed is justice denied; action must follow conviction."
Vladimir Lenin
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"The most important thing is for us to recognize our common humanity"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"The greater good is served by standing up for what is right"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Justice must be swift and merciless."
Joseph Stalin
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"Justice is determined by historical necessity."
Joseph Stalin
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Equality is the heart of democracy."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Winston Churchill
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"The price of overlooking bad behavior is bad behavior."
Winston Churchill
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Let us be dissatisfied until every man can have food and material necessities for his body."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The arc of justice is long but it bends toward justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A right delayed is a right denied."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Privilege must be joined by responsibility."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"The public sector must be accountable to the common good, not special interests."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"No group should be so small or so weak that our government forgets to defend their rights."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Justice without mercy is mere vengeance disguised."
Benito Mussolini
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"The goal of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind but to abolish all division of labor."
Vladimir Lenin
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"Tolerance is a crime when applied to evil."
Vladimir Lenin
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"The revolution cannot succeed without the participation of women."
Vladimir Lenin