Quotes About Justice

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My country, right or wrong." In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

Quel povero diavolo è stato derubato di quattro monete d'oro: pigliatelo dunque e mettetelo subito in prigione.

La scienza della realtà e della necessità, delle cause e delli effetti, dell'ingegni di puntamento, di percussione e di prótasi, quella sola può leggere dal suo quaderno che in sul capo all'Autore cadrà il pomo dall'albero, piantato nel prato, e disgregatasi invece dalle torri erme dell'alpe cadrà la pietra, cercando il profondo; che il giusto colpo springherà tremendo sopra al bersaglio; e che l'erba, che sarà cresciuta, la mangerà il cavallo, che campato sarà.

Likewise, however little man, in living, demands as just to himself, his duty toward justice remains infinite. The right to live cannot be paid by finite labour, only by infinite activity. Because you participate in the violence of all things, all of this violence is part of your debt to justice. All of your activity must go toward eradicating this: to give everything and demand nothing; this is the duty—where duties and rights may be, I do not know.

La Natura si sta comportando con noi come quell'anziano rabbino da cui erano andati due uomini per dirimere una contesa. Ascoltato il primo, il rabbino dice: "Hai ragione". Il secondo insiste per essere ascoltato, il rabbino lo ascolta e gli dice: "Hai ragione anche tu". Allora la moglie del rabbino, che orecchiava da un'altra stanza, urla: "Ma non possono avere ragione entrambi!". Il rabbino ci pensa, annuisce, e conclude: "Anche tu hai ragione".

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Le cose si trasformano l'una nell'altra secondo necessità e si rendono giustizia secondo l'ordine del tempo.

Things are transformed one into another according to necessity, and render justice to one another according to the order of time.

We have been marching for the last one hundred and fifty years. We sacrifice our individual liberties, and sometimes we fail and suffer. Sometimes we divide into separate groups and our methods conflict, though we all aim at one common goal. The significant thing is that we march on without turning back. What we want is peace not violence, We know that we thrive and prosper only in peace.

There is something wrong in our country when a man can take away something that belongs to you and your family.

Humanity knows no bounds to its inhumanity when it puts systems in place that justify its injustices. Legally

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." —C.S. Lewis With

Bernal Díaz del Castillo había sentenciado el destino de nuestro país [España, pero en realidad el mundo]: matarás y matarte han y matarán a quien te matare.

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.

Antigone by Sophocles.

Pinchando insectos, sosteníamos al orden civil, defendíamos las leyes y las costumbres. No era crueldad: era civilidad.

The sequence that made Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Dream Speech" the greatest speech of the twentieth century had all been improvised. The words "I have a dream" are not in the original copy of the speech!

The Supreme Court thus identified states as the ultimate defenders of rights, although Southern states had repeatedly proven themselves the ultimate violators of those rights.

Since the days of enslavement, African Americans have fought to gain access to quality education. Education can be transformative. It reshapes the health outcomes of a people; it breaks the cycle of poverty; it improves housing conditions; it raises the standard of living. Perhaps, most meaningfully, educational attainment significantly increases voter participation.135 In short, education strengthens a democracy. As

According to Human Rights Watch, "the proportion of blacks in prison populations exceeds the proportion among state residents in every single state.

For Johnson, nearly 250 years of unpaid toil to build one of the wealthiest nations on earth did not earn citizenship.