Quotes About Justice

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

There is no reason why a man who is willing to work should not be able to work and to receive the full value of his work. There is equally no reason why a man who can but will not work should not receive the full value of his services to the community. He should most certainly be permitted to take away from the community an equivalent of what he contributes to it. If he contributes nothing he should take away nothing. He should have the freedom of starvation. We

In July 2000 a court in Kalamazoo, Michigan, gave an unusually lenient sentence to José Rodriguez, a member of a street gang called the Latin Kings who had been found guilty of firebombing. According to a report in the Holland Sentinel, a local newspaper, the defendant's counsel 'noted that Rodriguez was a unique person because he reads the encyclopedia and dictionary for pleasure'.

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means... He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents...' In short, the end justifies the means.

order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -- the balance wheel of the social machinery.

If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view (if I may so say) of the Universe, than the good of any other; unless, that is, there are special grounds for believing that more good is likely to be realized in the one case than in the other.

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable. ...

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.