Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the [Civil] war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not. Sometimes I think perhaps I was. I approved of it; I joined...

As long as there is one person suffering an injustice; as long as one person is forced to bear an unnecessary sorrow; as long as one person is subject to an undeserved pain, the worship...

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life...

Justice it means but it’s everybody eating everyone else. That’s what life is after all.

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost...

The problem with our sense of justice is we always seemed to be kind to beautiful and attractive criminals.

One who abuses his power, unaware that one day will be the victim of his own abuses

He was the devil in a Sunday hat; he dressed and acted like a civil man, but inside he was just hatred and filth. Then, I guess after what I was planning to do to...

Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind...

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to deal with injustice is to be just.

Justice shines by its own light

The human quest for justice is an expression of the moral content of the fundamental laws of physics, which reveals itself in the search for a supreme law and a supreme lawmaker.

No one should be able to escape justice by not turning up when they’re supposed to.

A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes,...

We’ve tried to separate the two issues. We have others issues with the Department of Justice regarding Medicare.

If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale … we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready...

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can’t imagine someone else’s point of view.

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die,...

We tend to be taken aback by the thought that God could be angry. how can a deity who is perfect and loving ever be angry?…We take pride in our tolerance of the excesses of...

Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to John Holmes on the Missouri Statehood Question – April 20, 1820I thank you, dear Sir, for the copy you have been so kind as to send me of the letter to...

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

You feel like you’re cursed. Death follows you wherever you go and you feel completely abandoned. You wish it would all end for you. You think that death would be a release, yet something compels...

A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression.

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

The pain of humanity’s most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.

Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value.If all men are equal, then all men are of...

…Helen sipped peppermint schnapps and considered the world made of her design. My religion is keeping peace, she thought. It hadn’t begun that way, was nothing she’d planned, but now she saw that’s how it...

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a...

You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one...

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.

If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths – we may be...

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

I say this because as an older man I am prone to ponder matters in the light of death in a way that you are not. I am like a traveler from Mars who looks...

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear what you KNOW!

Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we’re paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.”Who?’ Aunt Alexandra never knew she was echoing her twelve-year-old nephew.’The...

What I have told you is not completely true. You should beware, for often in this story, my words will be spoken out of bitterness, out of hate. The scream of the poor is not...

We preserve and protect our system of justice best when we accept its judgments that we disagree with most,

Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal justice that justice delayed is justice denied.

The quick powers Mr Blair is issuing for the police to give instant justice are not as effective as he is making out.

We agree that the killing must be fully investigated and those responsible brought to justice,

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

There is a payoff for examining the divine author’s literary style. It will tell you something about Him. Whereas, Jonah’s actions are extensively described and laboriously detailed, God’s reactions (although miraculous) are only described in...

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy...

Social systems are neither a consumer product that we can buy or rent from the market nor a material that we can import from another country. It is not a creation of the almighty gifted...