Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.

We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.

Everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.