Quotes About Justice

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.