Quotes About Justice

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Only a few prefer liberty—the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories

When you encounter the unbelievers, blows to necks it shall be until, once you have routed them, you are to tighten their fetters.

that God was closer to the weak than to the mighty, to the poor than to the rich. Any beggar, any criminal, might be Christ. 'So the last will be first, and the first last.

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

A group of "citizens of color" marched to the Hôtel de Ville carrying a banner that read THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF CITIZENS OF COLOR: LIVE FREE OR DIE.

French Enlightenment philosophers liked to use slavery as a symbol of human oppression, and particularly political oppression. "Man is born free but is everywhere in chains," wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract in 1762. A generation of crusading lawyers put Enlightenment principles into action by helping slaves sue for the right to be treated as ordinary French subjects.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

We can mark a day on the calendar where America has fallen to a new low. This is now the condoning of taking matters, and the law, into you own hands and going to any lengths - even jungle savagery.

Life isn't always fair . . . but it's sure fairer than death!

There's no free lunch . . . unless you're an illegal alien.

The slaves themselves were powerless to create any written record of what they witnessed, or to publicize it in any way beyond the discreet oral circles of plantation life. What can be known of Sharpe's method and motives must be seen through the lens of the Jamaican prosecutorial narrative, which sought to understand him only to the point of gathering sufficient evidence to justify his hanging.

Büyük de?i?meyi Adem babam?z?n i?ledi?i o günaha yormakla yetinen Hristiyanlar? mutlu say?yorlar, k?skan?yorlar onlar?. Onlara göre babalardan çocuklara miras olarak günahlar? de?il, günahlar?n?n cezas? kal?yor. Oysa, as?l çocuklar?n günahlar?n?n cezas?n?, üreme kurallar?na uymayan ve çocuklar?n?n e?itimine önem vermeyen babalar?n çekmesi gerekir.

Ideal theory provides evaluative standards for judging when a social order is seriously unjust and an objective to strive for in our re sis tance to oppression. Injustices are conceptualized as deviations from the ideal princi ples of justice, in much the same way that fallacious reasoning is conceived as a deviation from the rules of logical inference. An injustice is a failure on the part of individuals, institutions, or social arrangements to satisfy what the princi ples of justice demand.

Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.

We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us.

Guns aren't evil people are evil. Once we get rid of evil we can get rid of guns.

At night, when the streets of your cities and villages are silent, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them, and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.