Quotes About Justice

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

On the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

Sir, My concern is not weather God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Call me old-fashioned," Deepak said, "but I've always believed that hard work pays off. My version of the Beatitudes. Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself... one day it all works out. Of course, I don't know that people who wronged you suffer or get their just deserts. I don't think it works that way . But I do think that one day you get your reward.

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks

Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself...one day it all works out.

How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks, or how big the Emperor's palace happens to be.

It should be a basic human right.

his crime was to belong to the losing side, or perhaps even the wrong side. But all he'd done was follow orders...

group thinks the other is inferior by birth, by skin color, by history. Inferior, and therefore deserving less. My father was no slave. He was beloved here. But he was never your equal so he wasn't rewarded as one.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

When the friar answered that the good ones did, Hatuey at once answered that he preferred hell, "so as not to be where Spaniards were.

Will you tell us the stories that make us uncomfortable, but not complicit?