‘I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.’ (Thomas Jefferson)

‘Truth is justice’s handmaid; freedom is its child, peace is its companion; safety walks in its steps; victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the gospel; it is an attribute of God.’ (Sydney Smith)

Injustice, suave, erect, and unconfined, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o’er mankind, While prayers to heal her wrongs move slow behind. Homer

‘By largely ignoring the central biblical teaching that God is on the side of the poor, our theology has been profoundly unorthodox. The Bible has just as much to say about this doctrine as it does about Jesus’ resurrection. And yet we insist on the Resurrection as a criterion of orthodoxy and largely ignore the equally prominent biblical teaching that God is on the side of the poor and the oppressed.’ (Ronald J. Sider)

‘Two small boys in front of me were walking slowly, deep in conversation, when they stopped to share an apple. “You cut and I’ll choose,” said one to the other. A penknife appeared, the cut was made and the choice decided.

What a splendid way of ensuring an apple is equally shared! Perhaps the world could get along with fewer conferences and agreements, I reflected, if only the powers that be had the simple solution that schoolboys worked out centuries ago.’

‘People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We become just by doing things which are just.’ (Aristotle)

‘Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.’ (Reinhold Niebuhr)

‘The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.’ (John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World)