Quotes about Justice

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

The equalization of fortunes may have some slight tendency to stifle animosity and to prevent dissension. But its effect is always inconsiderable, and often doubtful; since those who think themselves entitled to superiority will not patiently brook equality.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

Law is mind without reason.

I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.