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Quotes About Justice

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
~ Ben Jonson
It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.
~ Robert Scheer
The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
~ Pete Seeger
As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world
~ Salil Shetty
No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)
~ Unknown
Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.
~ Cicero
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Everyone will be taxed according to his means.
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals.
~ Donna Brazile
Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.
~ Melina Marchetta
So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.
~ William Kunstler
I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
~ Oscar Romero
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."
~ Harriet Tubman
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall
ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end
~ Roger Waters
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
~ Albert Camus
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.
~ Georges Danton
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
~ Coretta Scott King
If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
~ Hammurabi
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
~ Janet Reno