Quotes About Justice

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.