Quotes About Justice

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.