Quotes About Justice

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.

My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.

Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants).

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.