William Allen White Quotes

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

The law is cruel.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

If you want peace work for justice.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

What are kingdoms without justice but large bands of robbers?

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

We need to make ourselves deaf to the clamor of the whole world, because war feeds on despotism and is not fought for love of God

Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.