Mahatma Gandhi Justice Quotations

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Justice will come when it is deserved by our being and feeling strong.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Make injustice visible.

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

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

God is always the upholder of justice.