Quotes About Justice

Freedom is the most expensive commodity on earth….

A central pillar of his later teaching was that fearlessness is a prerequisite for nonviolence.

Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Oxford University Press: London, 2008

He who devotes himself" M. K. Gandhi. Non-Violent Resistance Satyagraha. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 2001

Louis Fischer. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World. Signet Classics: New York, 2010

James A. McGowan. Station Master on the Underground Railroad. MacFarland and Co.: Jefferson, North Carolina, 2004

But ahimsa is more than just the absence of violence: It is the presence of justice and of love. Gandhi always made it perfectly clear that "the satyagrahi's object is to convert, not to coerce, the wrongdoer.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right Is Ours. Oxford University Press: USA, 2001

Lynn Sherr. Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. Times Books: Toronto, 1995

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

Jefferson could write, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

The day Spenkelink was put to death a popular Jacksonville disc jockey aired a recording of sizzling bacon and dedicated it to the doomed man.

The greatest good, all that, which is also just a way of saying the least bad

Jade would never kill anyone just because. With reason, though, yeah. Twice-over, with interest, and more than a little attitude, maybe even something a little extra, for style points.

Por qué los principales pensadores posmodernos son políticamente de izquierda, y en la mayoría de los casos de extrema izquierda? ¿Y por qué ese prominente segmento de la izquierda, la misma izquierda que tradicionalmente defendía sus posiciones con los fundamentos modernos de la razón, la ciencia, la justicia para todos y el optimismo, es ahora vocera de posturas antirazón, anticiencia, del vale todo en la guerra y en el amor, y del cinismo?

There is a paradox at the core of penology, and from it derives the thousand ills and afflictions of the prison system. It is that not only the worst of the young are sent to prison, but the best—that is, the proudest, the bravest, the most daring, the most enterprising and the most undefeated of the poor. There starts the horror. —Norman Mailer's introduction to In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott No one knows what it's like to be the bad man.

Even a man accused of the worst act of terrorism ever committed in this country - especially such a man - is entitled to the best possible defense. This concept is a cornerstone of our justice system.

Until this episode, many Americans had believed that their soldiers were different from others, operating on a higher moral plane because their cause was good.

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

for every thousand people hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the roots.

So the question remains: why should we regard majority rule as morally special? Why should a part of the people – even the larger part – decide for the whole?