Top 100 Justice Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

52. “Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”

— Barack Obama

53. “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

— Bryan Stevenson

54. “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”

— William Wilberforce

55. “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

— Malcolm X

56. “I believe there is only one race – the human race.”

— Rosa Parks

57. “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”

— Elie Wiesel

58. “If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

59. “Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

60. “Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

61. “Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”

— Blaise Pascal

62. “In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can’t expect that you’re going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.”

— Frederick Douglass

63. “The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.”

— Plato

64. “Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.”

— Woodrow Wilson

65. “When we all see justice, then we’ll all see peace!”

— Michael Franti

66. “Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.”

— Susan B. Anthony

67. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

— Desmond Tutu

68. “You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.”

— Frederick Douglass

69. “The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.”

— Sigmund Freud

70. “Punishment is justice for the unjust.”

— Saint Augustine

71. “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

72. “Justice and truth are the common ties of society.”

— John Locke

73. “There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.”

— Pope John Paul II

74. “You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”

— Howard Zinn

75. “The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own.”

— Barack Obama

76. “Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”

— Orson Welles

77. “Revenge is a kind of wild justice.”

— Francis Bacon

78. “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”

— Albert Camus

79. “Freedom is incomplete without social justice.”

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

80. “The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.”

— George Washington

81. “Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.”

— Desmond Tutu

82. “Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are – to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.”

— Bell Hooks

83. “Nothing is worse than active ignorance.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

84. “Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.”

— Aldous Huxley

85. “There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.”

— Desmond Tutu

86. “Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

87. “The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.”

— Wendell Berry

88. “Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!”

— Terry Pratchett

89. “Forgiveness doesn’t diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.”

— Max Lucado

90. “Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”

— Mary Shelley

91. “It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.”

— Thomas Paine

92. “You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.”

— John von Neumann

93. “I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.”

— Michael Jackson

94. “Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

95. “When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.”

— John F. Kennedy

96. “Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom.”

— Albert Camus

97. “Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood – the virtues that made America.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

98. “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”

— Frederick Douglass

99. “Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?”

— George Washington

100. “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”

— Thomas Jefferson