3,189 Quotes About Justice

It's time that we teach humanity to the humans, and the only way to do that, is by being the emblem of humanity ourselves. And being an emblem of humanity means being an emblem of justice, equality, reasoning and acceptance.

A human without a strong sense of justice, is no human - a human without a strong sense of acceptance, is no human - a human without a strong sense of egalitarianism, is no human.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

You know what it means to be human? It means justice coming out of your synapses - it means equality bursting out of your arteries - it means your footsteps causing an avalanche of acceptance.

Raise your head now or your children will live with their heads down for the rest of their life.

The most radical approach to resistance is acceptance--and acceptance does not mean accepting the world as it is. It means accepting our pain as it is. If we refuse to accept our pain, then we're just trying to make ourselves feel better--and when our hidden motive is to make ourselves to feel better, there is no limit to the damage we can do in the name of justice.

At the end of this journey, it seems to me that reconciling the long shadows cast by the uneasy past may ultimately depend on elements so basic that they bring to mind a simple Slav proverb I once came across and never forgot: Eat bread and salt and speak the truth. They are the recovery of fact, public accountability and the instituting of fair trials of one sort or another, to help mark ends and beginnings and to return the moral compass as close to the centre as possible.

But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.

If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.