If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

if injustice, is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Along with every right thing to do is a right way to do it.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

It's not that we don't know the principles of righteousness. The issue is whether we have the courage to act on them.

I have tried so hard to do right.

Justice is truth in action.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

For whatever is demanded by truth, by justice, by mercy, or by love must surely be taken to be willed by God.