Welcome the Week With Wisdom: 22 Quotes on Justice

Everyday silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness. ~Natalia  Ginzberg Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Cour...

Everyday silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness. ~Natalia Ginzberg

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill

When I liberate others, I liberate myself. ~Fannie Lou Hamer

Law and justice are not always the same. ~Gloria Steinem

The world exists on three things: truth, justice, and peace.~Hebrew Proverbs

The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. ~Winston Churchill

You're either part of the problem or part of the solution. ~Eldridge Cleaver

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. ~Eldridge Cleaver

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something, and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.~Edward Everett Hale


I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being black and/or a woman, it means that other people's craziness has not managed to make me crazy. ~Lucille Clifton

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. ~Marie Curie

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ~Frederick Douglas

He who divides and shares, always takes the best part. ~Chilean Proverb

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ~Frederick Douglas

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Fear of difference is fear of life itself. ~M.P. Follett

He who helps in the saving of others saves himself as well. ~Hartmann von Aue

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past. ~William Hastie

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ~Wiliam Hazlitt


The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. ~Elbert Hubbard

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. ~Aeschylus