The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in...

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

The new chief justice will have his work cut out to try and bring consensus to the court, … There is much to be done to move away from the 5-4 decisions of the court.

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is...

It makes a mockery of any kind of system of justice.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice...

A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes.

I don’t really know what I’m going to do, … What kind of a justice would you be, John Roberts?

When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen’s inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi once called the ‘grey zone’ of human affairs, described by the historian Christopher...

And one day we must ask the question, “Why are there forty million poor people in America?” And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a...

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice.

All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

When a man kills another man, the people say he is a murderer, but when the Emir kills him, the Emir is just. When a man robs a monastery, they say he is a thief,...

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

When love is gone, there’s always justice. And when justice is gone, there’s always force. And when force is gone, there’s always Mom. Hi, Mom!

I believe […] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust...

Besides,” said Suriyawong. “This was not a rescue operation.””What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?””An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon,” said Suriyawong. “And the loan of a knife.”Achilles held up...

While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.

The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn’t mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, ‘Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from...

Now you are talking about an extremely rushed process for chief justice and I’m not at all sure that can be done within that time period. I will not take steps to purposely delay it....

Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done...

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

It’s a huge setback for justice. Most of all, it’s a setback for the victims.

When ‘Dirty Mack’ salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy...

I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we’re storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know, or be reminded of—the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

Kid Flash: Sorry. First time at the Hall. I’m a little overwhelmed.Robin: You’re overwhelmed. Freeze was underwhelmed. Why isn’t anyone just whelmed?

He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and...

The defiance of the good atheist hurled at an apparently ruthless and idiotic cosmos is really an unconscious homage to something in or behind that cosmos which he recognizes as infinitely valuable and authoritative: for...

When the law is wrong it’s because it’s unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

Unfortunately, the ten-cent-store Jesus being preached now by many men is not the Jesus that will come to judge the world. This plastic, painted Christ who has no spine and no justice, but is a...

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial...

The land of the free full of freedom is the home of the brave.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial....

If there’s hell below, we’re all gonna go.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after...

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

Le citoyen doit-il un seul instant, dans quelque mesure que ce soit, abandonner sa conscience au législateur ?(LA DÉSOBÉISSANCE CIVILE)

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men...

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle...