Quotes About Justice

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Democracy is the best revenge.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Every country has the government it deserves.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.