Cornel West Quotes

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Justice is what love looks like in public

Justice belongs to the people!

Justice is what love looks like in public.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love

Peace is the product of justice and love.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

Justice is merely incidental to law and order. Law and order is what covers the whole picture. Justice is part of it, but it can't be separated as a single thing.

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

Without justice there can be no love.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.