H. Rap Brown Quotes

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

May the foundation of our new constitution be justice, Truth and Righteousness.

In order to deal justly and equitably with your subjects, be straightforward and firm, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, but always following what is just, and upholding the cause of the poor till the truth be made clear.

I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Be just before you are generous.

Justice is truth in action.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Each is indispensable to civilization. Without law, we should be at the mercy of the least scrupulous; without ethics, law could not exist.

We need a President who is more interested in being right and just than being President.

Justice is what love looks like in public

Justice is what love looks like in public.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

Justice can rarely exist without honesty.

We should all be on the same team when it comes to truth and justice.

We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.

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.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.