Quotes About Justice

I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Freedom is not given - it is taken.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals