Sunday 8 December 2013

Justice Quotes

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  • Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.~Nelson Mandela






  • The sword of justice has no scabbard.~Antione De Riveral




  • The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the powerful.~Gov. Roy Barnes




  • Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
    ~Mahatma Gandhi




  • In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.~Albert Einstein 




  • The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.~Martin Luther King, Jr. 




  • Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.~J.R.R. Tolkien




  • Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity.~Alexander Solzhenitsyn




  • It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE.~Learned Hand





  • Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.~Barbara Hall




  • There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
    ~Elie Wiesel




  • In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.~Charles de Montesquieu




  • Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.~Goethe




  • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.~Martin Luther King, Jr.




  • All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.~Winston Churchill 




  • Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.~Domitus Ulpian




  • Justice is truth in action. ~BENJAMIN DISRAELI






  • Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. ~Frederick Douglass




  • Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting. That's what justice is. ~JOSEPH HELLER




  • The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. 




  • Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. 




  • Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. ~Mae West




  • It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.~Earl Warren




  • Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. 




  • There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.~Mahatma Gandhi 




  • I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.~Malcolm X 






  • Truth never damages a cause that is just. ~Mahatma Gandhi




  • Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. ~Robert Kennedy




  • Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. ~Epicurus




  • Oh, I am arm'd with more than complete steel, The justice of my quarrel. ~APHRA BEHN




  • Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. ~Henri-Frédéric Amiel




  • Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.~Frederick Douglass 




  • Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.~Helen Keller 




  • Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. ~Benjamin Franklin




  • Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. ~Malcolm X 




  • The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.~Kevin Bacon




  • If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. ~Ernesto Guevara




  • The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. ~Lois McMaster Bujold




  • Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ~Khalil Gibran 




  • Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. ~Plato 




  • I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.  ~Martin Luther King Jr.




  • Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. ~Theodore Roosevelt




  • I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. ~Voltaire




  • Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ~Plato 




  • Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.~Henry David Thoreau 




  • Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. ~Henry David Thoreau 



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