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Quotes About Justice

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
~ Gerrit Smith
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
~ Michelle Obama
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
~ Patrick Murray
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
~ Maxim Gorky
Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.
~ Pablo Neruda
He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.
~ Sun Tzu
Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.
~ Simone Weil
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
~ Ravi Zacharias
If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.
~ Harry A. Blackmun
In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.
~ John Pilger
If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
~ Shashi Tharoor
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.
~ Malcolm X
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
~ William Harvey
Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
~ Cornel West
A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.
~ Michael Servetus
When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
~ Joan of Arc
Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?
~ Helen Thomas
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
~ Demosthenes