Quotes About Justice

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

What is morally wrong can never be politically right.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

Let me be clear. I don't object to some people being richer, even much richer, than others. I object to gain of wealth through political connections rather than earning it by merit.

even much richer, than others. I object to gain of wealth through political connections rather than earning it by merit. If a basketball franchise pays my neighbor Kobe Bryant $20 million a year because it takes that much to get him, fine. But if hedge fund managers bribe politicians to put a clause in the laws cutting the tax rate on much of their income to a fraction of the percentage the average worker pays, I object.

Most crimes and misdemeanors by slaves were dealt with by their masters; they could even hang a slave if he killed another slave, but that would have been like throwing money down a well after the slave had already thrown the first load of money down, as William Robbins once told Skiffington.

But he was a free and clear man, and the law said so. Augustus never hurt me, never said bad to me. What Harvey done was wrong. But tellin you don't put me on the nigger side. I'm still on the white man side, John. I'm still standin with the white. God help me if you believe somethin else about me.

Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Concentrate on the victims of enemy powers and forget about the victims of friends.

reporting components for "worthy" victims]: Fullness and reiteration of the details of the murder and the damage inflicted on the victim. Stress on indignation, shock, and demands for justice. The search for responsibility at the top.

Free societies do not restructure the rights, that the public is entitled to, for the convenience of spies and police.

I SHALL PROCEED WITH MY CASE AS MY LAWYER HAS ADVISED ME!

My case is bad. Lord, be my advocate.My sin is red: I'm under God's arrest.

Is Christ thy advocate to plead thy cause?Art thou his client? Such shall never slide.He never lost his case.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

No, no guns, they won't get us anywhere. I tried that when I was young and it's a useless interim game. Use guns and you're no better than the Black and Tans and that's not good enough.

The essence of justice is mercy.

When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,Is this the handiwork you give to God?

Lord Sanquire was hanged in the days of James I. for the revengeful murder of an "Alsatian " master named Turner, who had accidentally put out his eye.

A blind figure never can be a reliable and authentic eyewitness and evidence; however, stay silent since justice is blind too.