Quotes About Justice

time to assert one's right is when it's denied!" "I'm sorry

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Such

I knew a free black there who had a room, and he took her in. She said when the Guard stopped searching for her, she'd go back to the Grimkés and throw herself on their mercy." He'd been pacing, but now he sat down next to me and finished up the truth quick as he could. "One night she went out to the privy in Radcliff Alley and there was a white man there, a slave poacher named Robert Martin. He was waiting for her.

hereby certify that on this day, 26 November 1803, in the city of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina, I set free from slavery, Hetty Grimké, and bestow this certificate of manumission upon her. Sarah Moore Grimké

One day I pulled the slender volume Children's Letters to God from a bookshelf and came upon this letter from a little girl named Sylvia: "Dear God, Are boys better than girls, I know you are one but try to be fair. Sylvia."22

I wanted to speak my conscience and have it matter.

No one had avenged the unnamed concubine. Jacob did not seek vengeance on Shechem. King David did not punish his son.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.

Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine

Humanity and justice are the principles on which to govern a state, but not an army; opportunism and flexibility, on the other hand, are military rather than civic virtues.

Punissez sévèrement, récompensez avec largesse

The tao is the way of humanity and justice; 'laws' are regulations and institutions. Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and justice and maintain their laws and institution. By these means they make their governments invincible.

If one man slay another of set purpose, he himself may rightfully be slain. He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

You cannot repay evil with evil.

stolen property vanishes because somebody has taken it; that a murdered man dies because somebody has killed him.

If indeed there were a God, civil rights was surely his work.

No human should ever be seen as something less than.