Justice Quotes

"The burden of being black in America teaches lessons about injustice that others never have to learn."

"The hunger for justice burns hotter than any other fire."

"I write because the alternative is complicity with injustice."

"We are all invisible men and women in the eyes of those who refuse to see us."

"To accept injustice is to perpetuate it."

"The Negro race is too emotional and too artistic to take part in the scientific progress of the world."

"There is something about poverty that smells like death."

"People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become."

"Fury is the appropriate response to racism, and blacks ought to be far more furious than they are."

"Racism is not a problem that can be solved by God or by good intentions alone."

"To eat bread without seeing it, to sleep without knowing it—this is the life of the poor."

"The health of a society is determined by how it treats its weakest members."

"A society is judged not by its leaders but by how it treats its outcasts."

"Never be ashamed to stand with the unpopular cause."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"I tire so of these white faces, preaching non-violence and patience."

"The pursuit of justice is never finished work."

"The world is unfair."

"What one begets, so shall it reap."

"The sting of injustice is the sting of memory."

"Show me a liar and I will show you a thief."

"You can't deny the humanity of people whose rights you have oppressed."

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"The test of a civilization is how it treats the weak and the helpless."

"One cannot make oneself feel something one does not feel, but one can make oneself act justly."

"Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men."

"There is a natural law against forcing anything long-time. Sometimes the penalty is casually delivered a long long time after the offense."

"I have never believed in the virtues of the society that does not reward them."

"Every man has the right to have his hunger satisfied."

"The weak are always anxious for justice and equality."