Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is...
A healthy patriotism must always be tied to the project of building a more just and inclusive America. from Frederick Douglass, The Prophet Isaiah, and Healthy Patriotism
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? Because, properly attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion. Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime,...
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, can not long retain it.
Nothing is quite so uninteresting as a religious moralism that is always on the side of the angels but never fights any particular evil; which advocates brotherhood, but never in a specific situation; and which admonishes men to be just, but never hazards an opinion...