Quotation Library
Justice & Equality
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Equal justice under law.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
An injustice to one is an injustice to all.
Justice is truth in action.
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
All men are created equal.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
There can be no justice without truth.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
The law is reason, free from passion.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.
Without justice, what are kingdoms but great robberies?
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
The foundation of justice is good faith.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity.
Equal and exact justice to all men.
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.