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...

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.

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...

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.”[ Live 8 Concert, Mary...

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What...

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one’s ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone – the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there’s no fairness on earth.

the importance of who is confirmed to succeed Chief Justice Rehnquist cannot be overstated.

Justice? — You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won’t come...

To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son’s suffering? But another sound can be heard: the...

I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.

The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable…. It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures...

But Hood was not yet done with her. He swung her up again, spun and once more hammered her onto the stone. ‘I have had,’ the Jaghut roared, and into the air she went again,...

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.