Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice is a social construct. It’s well known that the physical universe isn’t fair. Nevertheless, it’s difficult to decide which is more provoking: good people suffering or evil people prospering.

Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it.”She looked back at him. “I will one day, sir. I’m getting tired of falling down.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a...

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

I dunno why you hate us so much. I dunno why you hate me so much. I dunno why you’re calling Guillory a traitor when he’s the furthest thing from it. But don’t call what...

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?” I...

I was once, I am, and I will always be my children’s father. As to those individuals who have tried so desperately to destroy the fact, I offer forgiveness and seekreconciliation. As to the institutions...

Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair.

Our forces are tracking the attackers and we will arrest them and bring justice to the victims.

Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!

humane” exploitation, or single-issue campaigns that seek to portray one form of animal exploitation as morally worse than other forms of animal exploitation (e.g., a campaign that seeks to distinguish fur from wool or leather);...

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect...

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.