Quotes About Justice

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Poems have serious business to do They need to bring down presidents who Start wars they themselves wouldn't go to

This is for equality ... men and women ... blacks and whites ... jews and arabs ... oriental-occidental ... dreamers and the blind ... brilliant and the dumb ... all equal because we have decided ... they are equal ... it's a good system ...

Three days later when his body was found they wanted to bury him in Mississippi. I wanted him home in Chicago. I wanted the world to see what they did to my boy. I wanted Emmett's death to be the last death. I wanted Emmett's death to kill American innocence. I wanted Emmett's death to be not only the death of my boy but the death of innocence. I wanted Mississippi, I wanted America, to give us justice. And I prayed that I would live long enough to see it.

Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.

Thy designs are a bottomless pit. How can I descend into this pit to examine it? Thou lookest thousands of years into the future and then Thou judgest. What today seems an injustice to man's minute brain becomes, thousands of years hence, the mother of man's salvation. If what today we term injustice did not exist, perhaps true justice would never come to mankind.

This rebel would but toss his head, and men,slaves,horses, towers...all the accursed levels above him...would come tumbling down. God always works in this way. Deep in the foundations of wrong he buries the small despised cry of justice.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.

yo creo que todos los movimientos, todas las grandes organizaciones, de este mundo, son mentiras y ganancias para alguien. Yo lo que creo es que la gente deberia causar el menor daño posible a los demas seres humanos

We feel free to criticize otherwise-honest police officers who protect crooked cops because of their Blue Code. But we have our White Code. It allows some doctors to get away with clinical shoddiness and bad medicine, and I say to hell with it.

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It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?

I am not too happy with terms like "the left", to be honest. And I don't use it much….if by "the left" you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can't be elements of the left opposed to workers' movement, at least under that definition.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the ultimate weapon, and only hope that those who seek a more free and just world will not gain the same understanding and put it effectively to use.

if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of applying to themselves the standards they apply to others -- more stringent ones, in fact -- plainly cannot be taken seriously when they speak of appropriateness of response; or of right and wrong, good and evil

In fact, most of what they're calling crime is a kid caught with a joint in his pocket. Why do people think of that as the problem?

I'm quoting, so pardon the sexist language, but somewhere or other he said: socialism is an effort to try to solve man's animal problems, and after having solved the animal problems, then we can face the human problems—but it's not a part of socialism to solve the human problems; socialism is an effort to get you to the point where you can face the human problems