Quotes About Justice

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

A man's world, but a white man's planet.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.