Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

Hillary Clinton

"I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is"

Greta Thunberg, Environmentalist

Greta Thunberg

"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"

Johnnie Cochran, Lawyer

"Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems"

John Mica, Politician

"Lawless are they that make their wills their law"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

Simon Wiesenthal

"Fairness is what justice really is"

Potter Stewart, Judge

Potter Stewart

"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove"

Juvenal, Poet

Juvenal

"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very, very low crime rate"

Marion Berry, Politician

"It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law"

Cecil B. DeMille, Producer

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"He who allows oppression shares the crime"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"Power never takes a back step, only in the face of more power"

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

"My administration is the only thing between you [CEOs] and the pitchforks"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

Jeremy Bentham

"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

C. Wright Mills

"I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

Simon Wiesenthal

"Law is the essential foundation of stability and order, both within societies and in international relations"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"Evil prospers when good men do nothing"

John Philpot Curran, Public Servant

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country"

Marion Barry, Politician

"Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"Yes, America is a nation of immigrants - but the immigrants have to enter legally"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

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