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• We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.

  Unknown

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Ethics, Hierocles, Evil

• It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

  Hubert Humphrey

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Government

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Connections, Indifference, Injustice, Destiny

• The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

  Sara Paretsky

  Topics in Justice

• Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it — a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Ethics, Civilization

• The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Humanity, Justice

  Tags in Ethics, Human Rights

• To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one’s own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Interdependence, Action, Poverty, Freedom

• We’ve got to take back the ideal of justice, we’ve got to take back this principle of human dignity. We’ve got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we’ve got to say: look, we’re all in this together. We are human beings.

  David Kaczynski

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Human Rights

• Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.

  Martin Lowenthal

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Compassion

• There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Topics in Justice

• The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Topics in Democracy, Justice

  Tags in Community

• Is there equality before the law? At every stage of the judicial process–facing the policeman, appearing in court, being freed on bond, being sentenced by the judge–the poor person is treated worse than the rich, the black treated worse than the white, the politically or personally odd character is treated worse than the orthodox.

  Howard Zinn

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Equality, Injustice

• There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

  Edward Asner

  Topics in Justice

• Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

  Walter Weckler

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Feeling

• I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Compassion, Injustice

• As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

  John Stuart Mill

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Injustice

• We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Government, Poverty

• In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Justice

• The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Injustice

• Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Compassion