Quotes About Justice

The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

I killed one man to save 100,000.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

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

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.