Quotes About Justice

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got, why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

There is no respect of persons with God.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning!

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

Make the world better.

Cruelty is the only sin.