Justice Quotes - Page 40

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!

Make injustice visible.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Whenever you do judge, the only basis of judgment is not your own perspective or anything else, it's the very character and nature of God and that's why we are to allow Him to exercise His justice, where I personally want to take it upon myself.

The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

The Savior's suffering in Gethsemane and His agony on the cross redeem us from sin by satisfying the demands that justice has upon us. He extends mercy and pardons those who repent. The Atonement also satisfies the debt justice owes to us by healing and compensating us for any suffering we innocently endure.