Quotes About Justice

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)

I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.