Quotes About Justice

William Shakespeare

First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard...

He was my friend, faithful, and just to me, but Brutus says, he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious. When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should me made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says, he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man.

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor.

No white man is innocent. I am not innocent.

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

O ye who lead,Take heed!Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.

But she didn't. Didn't because she couldn't. None of those people had in any way harmed her or her family. And had she tried to hurt one of them, God would have somehow intervened.

The American Union sanctions the deed. The Constitution shields the criminals. American

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.

You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.

We are all guilty... [But the opportunity to make money] can draw a film across the eyes, so thick, that total blindness could do no more... A trade founded in iniquity must be abolished... let the consequences be what they will.

Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.

What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

We have only God on our side they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man." I sang it nice and slow