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Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about truth, equality, fairness, love, law, and peace that you can share on world justice day.
What Is Justice Sayings
1. “Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due” – Ulpian
2. “Justice is God’s Idea and Man’s Ideal” – Frank Walters
3. “Justice is truth in action” – Benjamin Disraeli
4. “Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey” – Denis Diderot
5. “Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
6. “Justice is the virtue that innocence rejoiceth in” – Ben Jonson
7. “Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. “Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race” – Daniel Webster
Short Quotes About Justice
9. “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public” – Cornel West
10. “Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
11. “It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered” – Aristotle
12. “Law without justice is a wound without a cure” – William Scott Downey
13. “Justice always whirls in equal measure” – William Shakespeare
14. “If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us” – Francis Bacon
15. “Justice delayed is Justice denied”- William Gladstone
16. “It’s every man’s business to see justice done” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fight For Justice Quotes
17. “Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just” – Blaise Pascal
18. “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are” – Benjamin Franklin
19. “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them” – Lois McMaster Bujold
20. “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is” – Howard Zinn
21. “The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
22. “Without justice in the world, we cannot have peace—the two are intertwined” – Tessa Hicks Peterson
23. “Justice is never so slender to us as when we first practice it” – Henry Ward Beecher
24. “If you want peace, work for justice” – Pope Paul VI
Human Rights And Social Justice Quotes
25. “True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice” – Jane Addams
26. “A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity” – Ralph Nader
27. “Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical” – Blaise Pascal
28. “Justice is the sum of all moral duty” – William Godwin
29. “Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world’s peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it – that is true civilization” – Hideki Tojo
30. “Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship” – A. Philip Randolph
31. “Fairness is what justice really is” – Potter Stewart
32. “The first requisite of civilization is that of justice” – Sigmund Freud
Quotes About Injustice
33. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” – Martin Luther King Jr.
34. “The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man” – Sophocles
35. “Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned” – Anatole France
36. “Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest” – Jose Rizal
37. “Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie” – Horace Walpole
38. “Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world” – Guy Ryder
39. “Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant” – Henry David Thoreau
40. “Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
41. “The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve” – Michael Sandel
42. “Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all” – DeRay Mckesson
43. “It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world” – Mary Wollstonecraft
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