Quotes About Justice

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage?

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

Frederick Forsyth

there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation." [p.28]

There are some men whose crimes surpass comprehension and therefore forgiveness, and here is the real failure. For they are still among us

The specific murderers of the SS therefore hide even today behind the collective guilt theory.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

prayer makes us more sensitive to the manifestations of institutionalized lies.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.

Gott ist] gerecht, Hofdichter. Sonst wäre die Welt keine Hölle.

Deine These war, dass die menschliche Unvollkommenheit, die Tatsache, dass wir die Handlungsweise anderer nie mit Sicherheit vorauszusagen, und dass wir ferner den Zufall, der in alles hineinspielt, nicht in unsere Überlegung einzubauen vermögen, der Grund sei der die meisten Verbrechen zwangsläufig zutage fördern müsse.

Dann waren Sie der Richter, und ich der Henker.

Der Schiksal der Menschen wird davon abhängen, ob sich die Politik endlich bequemt, das Leben eines jeden heilig zu nehmen, oder ob die Hure weiterhin für jene auf die Straße geht, denen nichts heilig ist. Die Dame muß sich entscheiden.

ogni tirannia diventa davvero insopportabile solo nella misura in cui è solidamente fondata. Niente al mondo, infatti, l'uomo sopporta con più difficoltà di una giustizia implacabile

Wahrheit ist ein Wort des Glaubens. Niemand vermag grausamer zu sein, als jene, die im Namen der Wahrheit handeln. Sie handeln auch im Namen der Gerechtigkeit.