Susan Griffin Quotes

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.

Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

There’s nothing more important than people’s conscience and there’s nothing that needs more protection.

If you want to go into the court of world opinion, you had better go in with clean hands.

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

We're not perfect, and there are some dark patches in our past, but what makes us special is that we recognize these evils, we come to grips with them, and we fix them.

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

It is never too late to do right.

Integrity is never painless.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.