Famous and Inspirational Quotes on...

Fairness, Justice, Peace & Hunger

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity."
— Arthur Vandenberg, 20th-century American senator

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Nothing is to be preferred before justice."
— Socrates

"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed."
— Mark Twain, American writer and humorist

"All works of love are works of peace."
— Mother Teresa

"Let us take the risks of peace upon our lives, not impose the risks of war upon the world."
— Quaker proverb

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
— Reinhold Neibuhr, 20th-century theologian

"Charity isn't a good substitute for justice."
— Jonathan Kozol, 20th-century American journalist

"I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled."
— Jonathan Kozol, 20th-century American journalist

"Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor."
— Ogden Nash, 20th-century American dramatist

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
— A.J. Muste

"When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him."
— E.B. White, 20th-century American essayist

"It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice."
— Thomas Jefferson, early 19th-century U.S. president