Benjamin Watson Quotes

Redemption should be part of politics, because it’s part of the human pageant.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

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

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness in an everlasting stream.

The fundamental democratic principles on which American Society is organized, are those principles of justice and mercy by which the guilty, the ignorant, the needy, and the infirm, are saved and blessed.