“The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.” MenHas BeensHandsGovernmentFormDesireJusticeQualityProduceCitizensBraveryInstitutionsSlaveDistinguishedFoulCowardlyForms Of GovernmentGood Quality Author:Dionysius of Halicarnassus
“The killing of Osama has taken place nearly 13 years after the terrorist bombings in Nairobi that led to the death of over 200 people, in an act believed to have been masterminded by Osama. His killing is an act of justice to those Kenyans who lost their lives and the many more who suffered injuries.” PeopleYearsHas BeensLostJusticeTakenKillingTerroristInjuryBombingNairobi Author:Mwai Kibaki
“Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.” PeopleHas BeensSongCommunityJusticeLeaderStruggleLandBrotherEssentialsSingingCloudsTheologyWitnessInvitesThronesEgyptSermonsMosesLiturgyClarifying Author:Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
“There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.” MayHas BeensFallJusticePainfulAlternativesAccountabilityAllowingInconvenient Author:Desmond Tutu
“No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players' contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining.” ShouldHas BeensNextJusticeRightsPlayerShould HaveRoundsContractsProtectedExhaustingBargaining Author:Alex Rodriguez
“I have been informed about the death of Slobodan Milosevic. It is unfortunate and in many aspects unsatisfactory, given the countless victims of the Balkan wars, that justice now will not be able to run its course.” Has BeensWarRunningAbleCoursesGivenJusticeAspectVictimUnfortunateBalkans Author:Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
“I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.” ThinkingHas BeensValuesJusticeCareersGrowing UpIssuesGrowingUnderstoodEmbraceNotion Author:Maya Harris
“Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.” IfsHas BeensCountryWould BeAmericaLosesJusticePayCrimeGreatnessElementsPagesDeterminationForgottenUglyDebtRecallsAmerican HistoryIndispensableMisdeeds Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.” IfsNeedsHas BeensHardEvilForceJusticeModernHard WorkDemandAdvantageRewardsProofRight ThingLiberalismLazyUnfairDoing The Right ThingHardworkingWithholdingUnfair AdvantageModern LiberalismActs Of Evil Author:Evan Sayet
“But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.” Has BeensSocialDifferencesJusticeKnownDemocracyCitizensSocial JusticeInstitutionsFraudArrangementsPlutocracy Author:Bill Moyers
“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.” PeopleHeartChildrenHas BeensProblemSchoolLastsPassionJusticeForgetCommonLibertyGoneTroubleHonestTomorrowSpeechNewsOrdinaryComplexesLegsPreservesEggsPoetry IsClingingBad NewsOutspokenCadenceOpaqueFryingTruth And JusticeCommon LifeHashBuoys Author:Garrison Keillor
“Well, you know, I do think in the larger span of things, I owe it all to Star Trek, because Star Trek has given me this pop icon status if you will, and one of the gifts have been this megaphone I have which amplifies my voice and I can reach people. And I do think the movement for equality for LGBT Americans is in the same context of all of the great American movements, you know, the basic fundamental ideals of this country of justice and equality.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWellsHas BeensI CanCountryGivenStarsVoiceJusticeMovementIdealsFundamentalsPopsLgbtIconsGreat AmericanEquality And JusticeAmplify Author:George Takei
“The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world.” WorldHas BeensEnoughJobsStrongJusticePartyHalfLibertyIdealsForgottenRingsSocialismBuriedDiamondLayersSocialistStrong EnoughProgressivismSquabbles Author:George Orwell
“I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.” IfsWayBelieveWellsMayHas BeensLostHeavenJusticePreparedCharityBarriersGrantsPiety Book:Works Source: Works
“My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!” IfsShouldHas BeensEnoughGovernmentCausesJusticeImagineRevolutionDearAtheistConvincedVainImagine ThatProvidenceSuperiorityRuinedDeitiesDear Friend Author:Benjamin Franklin
“History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.” PeopleHas BeensJusticeLogicTerrorIdeologyLiberationExclusionDowntrodden Author:Tariq Ramadan
“In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?” PeopleFeelsYearsFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoMomentsBigsYoungBlackPresidentJusticeCitiesKeysPoliceElectionCourtChiefsAfrican AmericanLeagueDepartmentVotersBoastAttorneyMayorsBig CitiesProsecutorReelection Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.” Has BeensGuyJusticePowerfulCompanyMillionsCasesEconomyStreetsBrokenWallFineActivityCriminalsBillionsCampaignsFinanceRuinsExecutivesIllegalCriminal JusticeRiggedCampaign FinanceGoldman SachsIllegal Activities Author:Bernie Sanders
“I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.” WayTryingHas BeensMovingSocialJusticeMy OwnLeaderHollywoodSocial JusticeHolesBackyards Author:Russell Simmons
“There are producers that have been my friends for many years that I'm still a big fan of, from Boyz Noize to solo acts. Justice. It really varies. All the way to like...sometimes I'll just find some dude out of Chicago that makes a great house song. I'm feeling a lot of the deep house stuff, Jamie Jones.” WayYearsHas BeensStillsSometimesFeelingsBigsSongHouseStuffJusticeFansMy FriendsProducersChicagoSoloVaryJamie Author:A-Trak
“When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.” PeopleHas BeensJusticeEconomicMovementFieldsActivitySurvivalRiversEnvironmentalForestsDestroyedStolenOur EnvironmentBiodiversity Author:Vandana Shiva