John Lewis on justice
John Lewis102 quotes“If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.”
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I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
John LewisJohn Lewis I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
John LewisJohn Lewis Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
John LewisJohn Lewis Races don’t fall in love, genders don’t fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
John LewisJohn Lewis We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
John LewisJohn Lewis I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
John LewisJohn Lewis Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
John LewisJohn Lewis There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
John LewisJohn Lewis Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
John LewisJohn Lewis Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
John LewisJohn Lewis I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
John LewisJohn Lewis I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.
John LewisJohn Lewis It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
John LewisJohn Lewis We must be headlights and not taillights.
John LewisJohn Lewis Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
John LewisJohn Lewis When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
John LewisJohn Lewis
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Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois To me justice doesn’t mean looking for the criminals. It means looking for the innocent.
Mwanandeke KindemboMwanandeke Kindembo God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
John CalvinJohn Calvin I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
Martin LutherMartin Luther It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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