Quotes About Justice

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

He who is less than just is less than man.

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.