6 Jimmy Carter Quotes on Justice

Jimmy Carter quotes on justice

2. Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

4. Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.

5. We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth-one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

10. Iraq is an unjust war. (spoken on the Diane Rehm Show; stated in articles written for NY Times; printed in USA Today)

47. The obvious answer is to follow the standards and the priorities that were established so clearly by the words and actions of Jesus Christ, who was dedicated to justice, peace, humility, service, compassion, and love. I would put an emphasis at this moment among Christians on forgiveness and accommodation.

58. The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

    Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.