Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.
Without justice you won't have stability.
I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.
I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
Longer Version:
The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?
Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.
I think there needs to be a range of justices, of all types. You can't just pick one type.
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.
This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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?
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society -- and well worth fighting for.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.
Justice is to be found only in imagination.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Longer Version:
Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.
Well you know, all law is about injustice.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
