Demanding Justice Quotes

#1. When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice ... and begging or pleading for love.

Mortimer Adler

#2. The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Albert Camus

#3. Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to be in the streets, at town hall meetings and on the phones, demanding justice for the 11 million aspiring Americans in our country.

Eliseo Medina

#4. We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new ... Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.

Anthony Esolen

#5. Muhammad was not yet establishing a new religion; he was calling for sweeping social reforms. He was not yet preaching monotheism; he was demanding economic justice.

Reza Aslan

#6. Christianity and Islam are concerned with the idea of justice, which can turn into political justice, social justice, economical justice, and so on. Buddhism is not so concerned with the idea of rights. There is more talk of responsibility than of demanding rights.

Pankaj Mishra

#7. She thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

Sherwood Anderson

#8. You're just looking for the thing that makes this scene sort of imperative, why you have to know what changes by the end of the scene so you're really looking to find the essence of it.

Oliver Parker

#9. I doze and wake so many times
my dreams reach over what is real,
the real becomes my dreams.

Pat Lowery Collins

#10. One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

Lance Armstrong

#11. A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unnaturally making justice unlawful, will drive them rather to rebellion against all law.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality
It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

F. Sionil Jose

#13. Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and the judgment that vichyssoise is cold expresses the fact that vichyssoise is cold.

David Berlinski

#14. Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.

Anthony Liccione

#15. Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#16. I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

Taiye Selasi

#17. In order to achieve stable success, you must be focused on God and not on success itself

Sunday Adelaja

#18. The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality

Quentin L. Cook