Quotes About Justice

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

I want a society free of human trafficking

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.