Quotes About Justice

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws.

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.