John Rawls on justice

Social and economic inequalities, for example inequalities of wealth and authority, are just only if they result in compensating benefits for everyone, and in particular for the least advantaged members of society.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Jesse Jackson1941–2026

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• Morality

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow1857–1938

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