Quotes About Justice

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.