Quotes About Justice

My slogan? PUT A BLACK FINGER ON THE NUCLEAR TRIGGER. 400 years of docility, of being calm, cool and collected under stress and strain would go to prove that I was the man for the job, that I would not panic in a crisis and push the button.

We knew that in the end what they were clashing over was us, what to do with the blacks, and whether or not to start treating us as human beings.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

Total liberty for Black people or total destruction for America.

Divine grace, Caravaggio shows us, is not reserved for the rich and powerful, but falls equally on the poor and humble.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our other achievements amount to nothing.

being acquisitive on a large scale, cannot have value if it is bought at the expense of others.

The function of democratic living is not to lower standards but to raise those that have been too low.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Todo el tiempo, día a día, tenemos que continuar luchando por la Libertad de Religión, la Libertad de Expresión y la Libertad para vivir sin miseria, por todas aquellas cosas que deben ser ganadas en la paz, así como en la guerra" (Eleanor Roosevelt)

We overlook the two major factors: they rarely know what we are talking about when we speak of freedom in the abstract; their most pressing problem, from birth to death, now as it always has been, is hunger.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

the laws work for those who fear them, not for those who violate them.

A quien me hace daño, le pago con la misma moneda. Soy el ocho de espadas, soy la avispa que pica, soy la serpiente oscura, soy el animal invulnerable que atraviesa el fuego y no se quema.

Olhei para ela, confusa. Com quase treze anos, não sabíamos nada de instituições, leis, justiça. Repetíamos, e às vezes fazíamos com convicção o que tínhamos ouvido e visto à nossa volta desde a primeira infância. A justiça não se realizava na porrada?

I concluded by saying that the world urgently needed to be changed, that there were too many tyrants who kept peoples enslaved. But it should be changed by peaceful means.

We were, in short, on the side of the violation, but only because it reaffirmed the value of the rule.

Los abogados...! ¿Y a quién van a juzgar? Esperamos la respuesta consabida: a los traidores de la Patria. ¿Qué traición y qué patria? La Patria en esos días llevaba el nombre doble de Calles-Obregón. Cada seis años la Patria cambia de apellido; nosotros, los hombres que esperamos en la plaza lo sabemos, y por eso esa mañana los abogados nos dieron tanta risa.

Los problemas de los jóvenes sólo pueden resolverse por la vía de la educación, jamás por la fuerza, la violencia o la corrupción. Ésa ha sido mi norma constante de acción y el objeto de mi entrega total, en tiempo y energías, durante el desempeño de la rectoría. El rector, Ing. Javier Barros Sierra, texto de su renuncia a la H. Junta de Gobierno de la UNAM, el 23 de septiembre de 1968.