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"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like"
Victor Hugo, Author
"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety"
Plato, Philosopher
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income"
Plato, Philosopher
"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others"
Plato, Philosopher
"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not"
Plato, Philosopher
"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice"
Plato, Philosopher
"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas, for England they have no graves as yet"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"Poor men's reasons are not heard"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion"
William Blake, Poet
"We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Measures must always, in a progressive society, be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings!"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them!"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience, but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"The place of justice is a hallowed place"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail"
Lord Byron, Poet
"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
Lord Byron, Poet
"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have"
James A. Baldwin, Author
"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die"
Martin Luther, Professor
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?"
Jose Rizal, Writer
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