Peace And Justice Quotes

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ – not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

We want to live a simple life, … I want to emphasize I’m not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God’s environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.

Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Build what you want to see in the world.

Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence…the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

“Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.”