Justice Quotes - Page 53

In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .

In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.