[Ads-l] "No Justice No Peace" (not in OED)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Interesting topic, Fred. Here is an earlier match with the desired meaning:

Date: July 1, 1935
Periodical: Unity
Article: Is Pacifism Doctoring Symptoms?
Author: Franklin K. Gifford
Quote Page 173, Column 1
Publisher: Unity Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois
Database: Internet Archive archive.org

[Begin excerpt]
There is something fundamental to peace; namely, justice; and short of
that, the natural law runs: "No justice, no peace. Smite and you shall
be smitten. Bite and you shall be bitten. Take up the sword and you
shall perish by the sword; and woe to him by whom the offence cometh."
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM Shapiro, Fred
<00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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> No Justice No Peace (not in OED)
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> 1967 Houston Post 15 June section 1, page 16, column 3 (Genealogy Bank)
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> The Rev. F. D. Kirkpatrick ... said the group was protesting lack of justice toward Negroes in general and especially those civil rights workers in the county jail.  The signs said such things as "No justice no peace."
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> Fred Shapiro
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