Quotes About Justice

Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Do not suffer your good nature [...] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice

89th: Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. Jean Anouilh, French dramatist and playwright

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner] ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

A few writers by implication touched upon the true social issue, that equality of rights was an illusion to those lacking the means to use it.

What is scandalous isn't the pit explosion, it's working in coalmines. 'Social problems' aren't 'a matter of concern' when there's a strike, they are intolerable twenty-four hours out of twenty-four, three hundred and sixty-five days a year.

En resumidas cuentas, en este mundo, cada cual consigue lo que se merece. Pero sólo quienes alcanzan el éxito lo reconocen. - Georges Simenon

Inside every wrong-doer and crook there lives a human being. In addition, of course, there is an opponent in a game, and it's the player that the police are inclined to see. As a rule, that's what they go after.

I should like to strangle the abominable creature!' 'Unfortunately, the laws of this lands preclude your pursuing that admirable course.

It is not that they are unconcerned with social liberation and justice, but that they are convinced such transformation will happen only through the changing of individual hearts.

A Catholic family had hidden a Jewish boy from the Nazis, and had learned that the Germans had murdered the child's parents. They brought the youngster to Wojtyla and asked him to baptize the child. In contrast to Pope Pius IX and his abductions and forced baptisms of two Jewish boys, Wojtyla refused. The boy should be raised Jewish in the tradition of his parents, Wojtyla told the parents.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Apartheid is a lie, people can work together, people can create together.

We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books.

In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order.

We need to have law enforcement and the African-American community work together for the safety of everybody.

Let's stand together, stick together, and work together for justice of every description. Racial justice. Gender justice. Immigrant justice. Economic justice. Environmental justice.

Black, white and brown people have to work together to find new answers. The only way we can stop the systemic problems that people of color have faced all our lives is through honesty and transparency.

I would love to tell you this country is on the cusp of coming together, but it isn't. But I can tell you that we need to work together in this country. We need to hold people accountable for their actions, and that will be done. And we need to move forward in a way that we have the strongest middle class ever.

I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.