#justic

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. ↗

— Philip Gourevitch

#family

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#free-speech #freedom #guarding #guards #injustice

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#nonviolence #freedom

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#accompanies #always #arrogance #assume #choice

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#exact #exact measure #find #imposed #injustice

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#anything #before #claims #else #enlightenment

The big tyrants never face justice. ↗

— George Galloway

#face #justice #never #tyrants

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency. ↗

— Lewis Thompson Preston

#economic #efficiency #judged #justice #loans

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#faith #imagination #justice #love #peace

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #correction #distinction #hatred #instigation