Justice Quotes - Page 54

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Violence does even justice unjustly.

I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country."

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions.

Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.

If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals.

Never get vengeance and justice mixed up.

The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.