Quotes About Justice

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing." —Audre Lorde

Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.

The true mark of a king is not his power or his wealth, but his compassion for his people.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

If the horse hurts an owner, the animal gets the blame. The BLM also created a program in which prisoners are given the opportunity to work with captive wild horses. They gentle them and get them to the point where they are ridable. This is an excellent idea.

All people seem to do is the best they can to get along and have a good time; and if that means keeping what they've got, they're liable to become fascists; and if it means trying to get what they need and don't have, there's a good chance of their learning the Internationale.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

If there is one righteous person the rain falls for his sake.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Shooting people to keep them from dying had logical flaws obvious to everyone.

Between justice and genocide there is, in the long run, no middle ground.

There is no moral difference between ordering an execution, and carrying it out.

Commodore Stephen Decatur. And he said, 'My country, may she always be right—but my country, right or wrong.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

The poorest being that crawls the earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

Neste mundo, o pecado que paga a passagem pode viajar tranquilamente e sem passaporte, enquanto que a virtude em um pobre é detida em todas as fronteiras.

It is often one of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one.

There howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronizing lee of churches. For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.

well, blessed are the peacemakers, especially the fighting peacemakers

Non di rado accade che, quando un uomo si trova contrariato in modo inconsueto e violentemente assurdo, egli cominci a nutrir dubbi sulle sue più salde convinzioni. Egli comincia, per così dire, a dubitare vagamente che, per strana che la cosa possa sembrare, la ragione e la giustizia si trovino dall'altra parte.