Quotes About Justice

What is God?" and answers, "God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

Psalms of lament call on God to stop injustice and exploitation and oppression. By calling on God to intervene, the psalmist or the one praying the psalms is affirming that God is the utterly fair and all-knowing Judge.

As Oliver Ellsworth, the third chief justice of the United States, declared, "As population increases, poor labourers will be so plenty as to render slaves useless. Slavery in time will not be a speck in our country."42 The leaders simply did not count on the remarkable demographic capacity of the slave states themselves, especially Virginia, to produce slaves for the expanding areas of the Deep South and the Southwest.

If there is a just God, how humanity would writhe in its attempt to justify its treatment of animals.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

I mean, if we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

There are few things in the world more blinding than race prejudice, and there are but few things more inflexible and persistent. Against the claims of truth and justice, to say nothing of brotherly kindness, it stands like a wall of brass. Reason and common sense dash themselves against it in vain.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but in being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Justice is the foundation of courage...

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools: so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong, when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.

Enjoy thy stream, then, harmless fish; And, when an angler, for his dish, Through gluttony — vile sin! Attempts, a wretch! to pull thee out, Heaven give the strength, O, gentle trout, TO PULL THE RASCAL IN !

Forgive. It doesn't erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

But freedom is not enough.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

...rights are not won on paper. They are won only by those who make their voices heard — by activists and militants. Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.

In a civilisation frankly materialistic and based upon property, not soul, it is inevitable that property shall be exalted over soul, that crimes against property shall be considered far more serious than crimes against the person.

Weedon Scott had set himself the task of redeeming White Fang—or rather, of redeeming mankind from the wrong it had done White Fang.