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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
- Life & Death
- Morality
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938
- Patriotism
If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776)In context
- Liberty
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- War & Peace
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster1782–1852On Mr. Justice Story (September 12, 1845); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), page 300
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968In a 1955 response to an accusation that he was “disturbing the peace” by his activism during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, as quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr (1982) by Stephen B. Oates
- War & Peace
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (375 BC), Republic, Book I, 344cIn context
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
An unjust punishment is never forgotten.
PFPenelope Fitzgerald1916–2000
Arbitration is justice blended with charity.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Charity
That the innocent, though they may have some connexion or dependency upon the guilty (which, perhaps, they themselves cannot help), should not, upon that account, suffer or be punished for the guilty, is one of the plainest and most obvious rules of justice.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Speech to the Second National Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights – Chicago (25 March 1966), as quoted in Dan Munro, “America’s Forgotten Civil Right—Healthcare”, Forbes (28 August 2013)
- Health
There is no such thing as justice — in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Interview in Chicago (April 1936)