Quotes About Justice

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

The press conference was held in a courtroom at the new county courthouse, a space that did its best to translate justice into laminated wood.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

It was a bitter thing. You might give up lawing, but some no-account would pop up from the underbrush of the past and shoot you in the back.

The land didn't need laws. But people did.

If there be a God in the Universe, if it be a just God, then we must oppose Slavery. If there be a God but the god is unjust, then we should not worship him lest we also become unjust. And If there be no God or order to the Universe, then why make the situation worse by enslaving your fellow lost and suffering man?

but Surge was not mad, had never been completely drained of his compassion and he could never forget, nor could he since then look upon the helpless and the innocent with anything less than outrage and a desire for justice.

The moral regeneration of mankind will only really commence, when the most fundamental of the social relations [marriage] is placed under the rule of equal justice, and when human beings learn to cultivate their strongest sympathy with an equal in rights and in cultivation.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

But the true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they freely concede to every one else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional necessity, and in all cases a temporary one; and preferring, whenever possible, the society of those with whom leading and following can be alternate and reciprocal.

We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.

Society between equals can only exist on the understanding that the interests of all are to be regarded equally.

That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

The à priori presumption is in favour of freedom and impartiality.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in neither case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

we do not call anything justice which is not a virtue

The justice of giving equal protection to the rights of all, is maintained by those who support the most outrageous inequality in the rights themselves.

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