
The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
- Topic: Justice
- Location: Jamaica
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
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More on Justice
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
› James Baldwin
If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
› Henry David Thoreau
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
› Sigmund Freud
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
› William Faulkner
Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
› Coretta Scott King
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
› Adam Smith
My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
› Mohandas Gandhi
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
› Albert Einstein
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
› Moliere
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
› Constitution of the United States
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
› Marcus Aurelius
