Justice Quotes

"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom." "The safety of the people shall be the highest law." "As you have sown, so shall you reap." "You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place." "It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." "I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery" "Observe good faith and justice towards all nations cultivate peace and harmony with all" "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over." "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one" "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." "Human dignity shall be inviolable." "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." "For the dead and the living, we must bear witness" "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience" "But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court" "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."