Justice Quotes

"Justice requires imagination; without it, we only reproduce the sins of our fathers."

"I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom."

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."

"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

"The true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of the most important battles being fought today."

"Human dignity has always been a fundamental tenet of my beliefs."

"The battle for individual rights has always been a difficult one, requiring tremendous courage and fortitude."

"We will continue to have equal rights, and women will have equal pay for equal work."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"Birth is not an achievement, hereditary privilege is not distinction."

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."

"The laws of a nation form the highway code of its citizens."

"I am against any discrimination. I am against any superiority of people."

"The policy of an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind."

"The moment there is in any country violence done to a man because he is a Hindu or because he is a Christian, that is not civility."

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice."

"The test of our social machinery is whether it distributes opportunity or whether it concentrates it."

"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."

"I believe in the forgotten man, the man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds."

"Segregation is not only a political and economic issue; it is a moral issue."

"The curse of poverty has no justification in any religious or political framework."

"We cannot be content while millions of people are denied basic human dignity."

"Democracy requires not just institutions, but citizens who believe in its possibility."

"A nation's character is revealed in how it treats the powerless."

"We are all criminals in the eyes of the law."