45+ Powerful Justice Quotes to Inspire Fairness, Equality, and Social Change
Justice is the foundation of fairness, ensuring that everyone is treated with dignity, equality, and respect. It reflects the moral principle that rights should be protected and wrongs addressed, fostering trust and harmony in society. Justice inspires accountability, balances power, and advocates for the oppressed, reminding us of the shared responsibility to uphold it. When pursued with integrity and compassion, justice becomes a powerful force for creating a world where truth and equity prevail.
Including: Righteousness, Fairness, and Equality.
- “The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
- “The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”
- “A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.”
- “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
- “Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.”
- “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.”
- “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
- “The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.”
- “True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.”
- “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.”
- “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
- “The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
- “If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
- “At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
- “Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
- “Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”
- “Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.”
- “The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.”
- “Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.”
- “Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.”
- “Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”
- “As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.”
- “Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.”
- “Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.”
- “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
- “Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
- “No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”
- “Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
- “Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”
- “The place of justice is a hallowed place.”
- “If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
- “What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.”
- “Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.”
- “Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.”
- “Too much mercy… often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.”
- “Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.”
- “Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.”
- “I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.”
- “Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
- “Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.”
- “A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.”
- “These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”
- “Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”
- “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
- “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.”
- “We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”
- “Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.”
- “Justice is to be found only in imagination.”