“I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.” NeedsHumansStillsEarthSpiritJusticeFreedomHuman BeingsLibertyOur LivesMaterialsComfortDemandEvidenceSakeWorthyCollectivesBeing HumanBondageIndivisibleExpediency Author:Han Suyin
“The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.” MenJusticeVirtueMaterialsTypeHigherComfortFavorsCherish Author:Confucius
“Too often people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, never taking a principled stand. True justice will never come until those who are not injured are just as indignant as those who are” PeopleEnjoyJusticeOpinionComfortDiscomfortInjuredPrincipledIndignantTrue Justice Author:Kweisi Mfume
“Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.” LifeHumansCountryMatterLife IsJusticeRightsComfortConcernDignityHuman RightsHuman DignityPersonal DignityBasic Human Rights Author:Imelda Marcos
“We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.” WorldHumansMaySoulStatesEarthJoyHumanityOrderAsksJusticeMaterialsComfortMembersFairsStriveGods WillKingdomsServantWelfareParadiseHeavenlyOur ThoughtsHuman SoulServant Of GodGladnessMaterial WorldElementalsJoy Happiness Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.” HardPainGrowsPeaceHurtJusticeLossHard WorkComfortFruitShelterCertitude Book:Finding Peace Source: Finding Peace
“If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.” IfsNeedsHumansMeanHelpingLyingJesusCausesPeaceChristJusticeCompassionEnemyBrokenHolyComfortOffersDemandEqualJudgmentDevilMy FriendsJesus ChristStrangerPrisonerDistressUbuntu Book:Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg Source: Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg
“They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.” MenJusticeWhiteTaughtComfortStrongerSocial JusticeEndureVicesLazinessWhite ManBondageEvasionIntemperance Author:William Faulkner