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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- War & Peace
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Developments in Eastern Europe and the Middle East (October 31, 1956)
- War & Peace
As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so⁠—we believe⁠—there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
- Laws
We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Letter to Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (June 6, 1953)
- America
Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Fugitive Slave Law, a lecture in NYC (March 7, 1854)
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
Euripides481–407 BCBacchae, ll. 882–884 (Bartlett’s, 14th ed. 1968)
- God
The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.
Frantz Fanon1925–1961The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 9
- Race
It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
William Faulkner1897–1962The Sound and the Fury (1929), April Eighth, 1928 (1 of 2)In context
An unjust punishment is never forgotten.
PFPenelope Fitzgerald1916–2000
The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.
Pope Francis1936–2025Said during a gathering of Latin American bishops, as quoted in ‘Option for the Poor’ alive and well in Latin America, National Catholic Reporter (21 May 2007)
- Economics
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, on Blackstone’s Ratio (14 March 1785)
- Laws
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Young India (10 April 1930)
- Women
An unjust law is itself a species of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Non-Violence in Peace & War (1962) Vol. 2, edited by Mahadev Haribhai Desai, p. 144
- Laws
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
William Ewart Gladstone1809–1898Speech, Plumstead (30 November 1878) as quoted in Congressional Record, vol. 57, p. 4503
The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.
Hermann Göring1893–1946Nuremberg Diary (1947), p. 4 (1995 edition)
- War & Peace