Quotes About Justice

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. That he governs the World by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable Service we can render him, is doing good to his other Children. That the Soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with Justice in another life, respect[ing] its Conduct in this. These I take to be fundamental Principles of all sound Religion, and I regard them as you do, in whatever Sect I meet them.

I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

Benjamin Franklin

Anoint a villain and he'll stab you, stab him & he'll anoint you.

God works wonders now & then; Behold! a Lawyer, an honest Man!

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful,

Ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy...An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

the prophets repeatedly declare "that the son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, but every one be answerable for his own sins.

For not forgetful is the high gods' doom Against the sons of carnage: all too long Seems the unjust to prosper and be strong, Till the dark Furies come, And smite with stern reversal all his home, Down into dim obstruction--he is gone, And help and hope, among the lost, is none!

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Black Americans are not defeated, the civil rights movement is not dead. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop agitating, they had better think again. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop litigating, they had better close the courts. If anyone thinks that we are not going to demonstrate and protest, they had better roll up the sidewalks.

I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.

In truth, it is no more clear in our time than it was in Marx's how socialism will come about in either developed or undeveloped countries; what is clear is that for humanity to have a decent future, it must come about.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly to be sacrificed.

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

He was the quintessential practitioner of Jabotinsky's formula: Influence governments through public opinion, influence public opinion by appealing to justice, influence leaders by appealing to interests.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.