Quotes About Justice

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.