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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
- St. Augustine
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
- Aristotle
From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.
- Aristotle
It's every man's business to see justice done.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
- John Quincy Adams
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
- Barbara Kingsolver
We need a generation of dissident disciples who confront and resist corruption and systemic abuses in whatever locations they are found: • corruption in the countries of the world, • our churches' complicities in these corruptions, • and the reading of Revelation as speculation, which blunts our prophetic voice.
- Scot McKnight
It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
- Abraham Lincoln