Justice Quotes - Page 24

The food chain has victims at both ends: even rapists and murderers need someone to look down on, and kid killers will do nicely.

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.

Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation and requires veganism as a matter of fundamental justice, is radically different from the welfarist paradigm, which, in theory focuses on reducing suffering, and, in reality, focuses on tidying up animal exploitation at its economically inefficient edges. In science, those who subscribe to one paradigm are often unable to understand and engage those who subscribe to another paradigm precisely because the theoretical language that they use is not compatible.I think that the situation is similar in the context of the debate between animal rights and animal welfare. And that is why welfarists simply cannot understand or accept the slavery analogy.

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the same. It serves them right.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE.

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.

To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

Justice has a right to protest against injustice.

Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.

A righteous God isn't bound by time. He has an eternity to make things right.

Whatever they have done, or are doing, or will do to the people locked away forever in Guantanamo Bay, they will do the same to the people in Harlem and the people in Los Angeles and the people in Texas and the people in Washington and the people in Florida and of course to the people in Alabama and the people in South Carolina........

Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to "cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky

He was the devil in a Sunday hat; he dressed and acted like a civil man, but inside he was just hatred and filth. Then, I guess after what I was planning to do to save a life, I wasn't too dissimilar to him.