Quotes About Justice

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

The laws of men are not infallible.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

All men & women are created equal

I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.