Yuri Kochiyama Quotes

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

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.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

I wanted to help the world be more just.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

A more just world is possible.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has something to offer the movement of justice

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

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

Justice comes before charity.

I understand the demands for justice and fairness made by the L.G.B.T. community.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.