Quotes About Justice

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.

Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.