Justice Quotes - Page 26

There is no justice among men.

You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is excluded from all the goodies that come with English. And even in terms of justice, law codes, the legal system. A person who does not know English in Africa is excluded from that system because he can only operate through acts of translation.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.

Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.

Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.

One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.