We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

I never intend to adjust myself to injustice.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don’t care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that’s being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

There has been a crisis of leadership in both parties. The leadership class is losing its legitimacy. We want order with truth and justice at the center of it.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

If we’re fighting shoulder to shoulder, in the pursuit of justice, nothing can break us up.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out – I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

I am leaving this legacy to all of you…to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

All government wars are unjust.

The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and … if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse… I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve ‘the common good.’ It is true that capitalism does — if that catch-phrase has any meaning — but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man’s rational nature, that it protects man’s survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice

Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.