Quotes About Justice

Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man. Because all Americans just must have the right to vote. And we are going to give them that right. All Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race. And they are going to have those privileges of citizenship regardless of race.

The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way.

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

The prophet Habakkuk lived in a time that was much like ours. He, too, asked Hashem, 'Why do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?' And you know Hashem's reply as well as I do: 'The righteous shall live by his faith.

I was chosen, too, you fatherless son of a whore. [...] But it's my people at the Cockerel that I'll kill you for, and for what you did to Alec. For the runners and keeks you used and betrayed, the innocents who've died at your order. Hell, I'll kill you for the sheer fun of it. Come on, Lord Eater of Shit. Let's get this over with.

Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.

A man does not come at what is mine, harm it, and walk away unscathed.

It has become a cliché to say that one person can make a difference, but the life of Mahatma Gandhi confronts us with the enduring truth of that statement.

Only Tarzan managed to escape judgment, since he escaped from the courtroom during a brawl.

Juvenal, another non-Christian writer of Rome, tells us that "fools seek revenge, philosophers forgive.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein

I once heard that the French don't prosecute people who commit crimes of passion twenty minutes after waking.

When we believe there is not enough, that resources are scarce, then we accept that some will have what they need and some will not. We rationalize that someone is destined to end up with the short end of the stick.

to create "a world that works for everyone, with no one and nothing left out.

To deny James an education was attacking principles of liberty and equality upon the only ground which it ought to be supported and equality of rights. If James could not go to school, how could he hope to equip himself to earn a living?

Did you see that? Buffy just staked that poor vampire. He had yet to even do anything untowared, he just crawled out of his grave and she staked him. That is just not right. She is taking out her problems with that Angel fellow on a vampire, that is what she is doing.

Though we may get our hearts broken from the effects of sin in this in-between time, God's goodness will eventually set the world right.

Forgiveness releases to the Lord your need for them to be punished or corrected, giving it to the only One who can do this with right measures of justice and mercy.

seeking what's fair never cracked the world open to reveal the beautiful reality of a Jesus-loving woman.