Justice For All Quotes

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Relationship, Truth

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• It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Justice, Favors

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Eye, Long, Enough

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4411, Library of Alexandria

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• Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Conflict, Absence

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• Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Patriotic, Liberty, Who We Are

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary challenges, ... But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Hands, Challenges, Age

  "My legal hero: Ruth Bader Ginsburg" by Michael Posner, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2010.

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• America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Heart, Law, America

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.106, Take Root Media

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• When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Believe, Talking

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• Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.

  Honore Daumier

  Freedom, Justice, Pedestal

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• Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Father, Character

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• As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all.

  Michelle Obama

  Justice

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• Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Water, Soul

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.

  Nelson Mandela

  Beautiful, Land, Water

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

  Colin Kaepernick

  America, Liberty, Right Now

  Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

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• We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality -- when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. My father believes that there is no such thing as justice because all his life he has witnessed the tipping of the scales. We must change this widespread mentality by making equality a reality, not just something we read and hear about on the TV and in literature.

  Suzy Kassem

  Country, Father, Believe

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• Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

  Corazon Aquino

  Peace, Diversity, Principles

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• And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

  Eyvind Johnson

  Believe, Goal, Injustice

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• All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Strong, Men, People

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Racism, Environmental

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

  Patricia Schroeder

  Peace, Liberty, Politics

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• In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Liberty, Owners, One Nation Under God

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• When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Liberty, Foundation, Principles

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• And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.

  Errico Malatesta

  Heart, Mean, Self

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.110, PM Press

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