Matthew Scully Quotes

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

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.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

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

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

May the foundation of our new constitution be justice, Truth and Righteousness.

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.

It is justice not charity that is wanting in the world.

Can law, human law, change the nature of things? Can it turn darkness into light, or evil into good? By no means. Notwithstanding ten thousand laws, right is right, and wrong is wrong still. There must still remain an essential difference between justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. … Who can reconcile this treatment of the Negroes, first and last, with either mercy or justice?

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

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

Morality is very important. We have to be together.

Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Mercy surpasses justice.

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

Love is more just than justice.

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

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.