Quotes about Justice

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.

This word is composed of jus and dictio, juris dictio or a speaking and pronouncing of the law.

I never did think the truth was a crime.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

By taking the lives of our young, and wounding the wombs and lives of their mothers, we are flying in the face of God. We cannot play God. If we continue down this path of destruction, we will be met at the gates by our own doom.

Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.