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Quotations from the Wayside
Let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness an overflowing stream.
AMOS 5:24
The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrongdoer.
MARCUS AURELIUS
The inequalities suffered by the many are in no way justified by the rise
of a few.
JAMES BALDWIN
Without justice, peace is nothing but a nice-sounding word.
DOM HELDER CAMARA
Kindness without justice is of little moral worth.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
While there’s a soul in prison I am not free.
EUGENE V. DEBS
We cannot do evil to others without doing it to
ourselves.
DESMAHIS
One hour of justice is worth three thousand hours of prayer.
KEMAL DJUMBLATT, LEBANESE REVOLUTIONARY LEADER
Riches that leave another poor I do not want.
ANDRÉ GIDE
Tolerance is a virtue, but indifference is a vice.
DANA MCLEAN GREELEY
We are not punished for our sins but by them.
ELBERT HUBBARD
There is nothing more tragic in all this world than to know right and not
do it.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
No lie can live forever.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Justice is nothing else than love felt by the wise.
LIEBNIZ
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the
people?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of people.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
MATTHEW 7:12
If you want peace, work for justice.
POPE PAUL VI
Among citizens there should be no forgotten people and no forgotten races.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent
to them.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Justice is love operating at a distance.
JOSEPH SITTLER
The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.
TERENCE
Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE
Who degrades another degrades me.
WALT WHITMAN
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