Just Society Quotes

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.

I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It also includes the recognition of the value of democracy. When we speak about social justice, it means that freedom should be used not only in the interest of profit but also in the interest of the advancement of the people who create all values.

Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

One can conclude that certain essential, or fundamental, rights should exist in any just society. It does not follow that each of those essential rights is one that we as judges can enforce under the written Constitution. The Due Process Clause is not a guarantee of every right that should inhere in an ideal system.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

We are looking forward to a non-racial, just and egalitarian society in which color, creed and race shall form no point of reference.

…in a just society, no one can ever be reduced to poverty or forced to beg.

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

We are all part of a larger collective looking to create a more beautiful and just world.

Where we are as a nation is due to having an openness to the people of the world. It's incredibly important. I firmly believe that we cannot shut our borders to immigrants. I think a fair and just immigration policy is good for our country and good for our society.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Equality is the chief groundwork of equity.

If one truly wishes to found a more just and rational social order, it is not enough to count on the caprices of technology.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.