Justice Quotes - Page 46

The health of a society is truly measured by the quality of its concern and care for the health of its members . . . The right of every individuals to adequate health care flows from the sanctity of human life and that dignity belongs to all human beings . . . We believe that health is a fundamental human right which has as its prerequisites social justice and equality and that it should be equally available and accessible to all.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to camouflage the fact that we - you and I and other specific human beings just like us - have to start doing things differently. "They" can't fix anything. We can.

I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.]

No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity

We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.

The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

To an American, that which deprives him of his freedom he regards as injustice, and that which allows him to enjoy that freedom he regards as justice. The concept of justice is as central to the totality of his being as freedom is, and this is not surprising, since the motivating idea behind the American Declaration of Independence was the fervent desire for justice.

Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Remember this: you can have justice, or you can have two dollars. But you can t have both.

It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.