At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.

                        —Arundhati Roy

When rich speculators prosper while farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn — all this is robbery and chaos.

                                    —Lao-Tzu

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

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

                   —Reinhold Niebuhr

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

                —Benjamin Franklin

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, “Let justice roll down like mighty waters,” and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure.

          —William Sloane Coffin

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

                        —Walt Whitman

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

                   —Abraham Lincoln

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

                      —G.K. Chesterton

The best guarantee for justice in public dealings is the participation in their own government of the people most likely to suffer from injustice.

                             —John Morley

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

                                    —Socrates