Quotes About Justice

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit.

Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.

When you hang a man, you better look at him.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.