Top 100 Justice Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr.

2. “If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.”

— John Lewis

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3. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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4. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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5. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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6. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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7. “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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8. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

— James Baldwin

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9. “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”

— Cornel West

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10. “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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11. “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

— Nelson Mandela

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12. “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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13. “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

— Malcolm X

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14. “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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15. “The opposite of poverty isn’t wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.”

— Bryan Stevenson

16. “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

— James Baldwin

17. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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18. “The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.”

— John Rawls

19. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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20. “If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.”

— Immanuel Kant

21. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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22. “Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

23. “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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24. “Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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25. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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26. “Do the right thing because it is right.”

— Immanuel Kant

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27. “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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28. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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29. “Justice is truth in action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

30. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

— Elie Wiesel

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31. “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

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32. “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

— Malcolm X

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33. “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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34. “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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35. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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36. “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

— William Penn

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37. “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”

— Paul Farmer

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38. “They Have Money For War But Can’t Feed The Poor.”

— Tupac Shakur

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39. “Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.”

— Suzy Kassem

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40. “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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41. “I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.”

— Maya Angelou

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42. “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

— Audre Lorde

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43. “If you want peace, work for justice.”

— Pope Paul VI

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44. “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”

— Voltaire

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45. “Your silence will not protect you.”

— Audre Lorde

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46. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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47. “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

— Howard Zinn

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48. “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”

— Confucius

49. “Nothing about us without us.”

— Judi Chamberlin

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50. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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