Quotes about Justice
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
- Henry David Thoreau
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
- Henry David Thoreau
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
- Henry David Thoreau
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
- Henry David Thoreau
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
- Herbert Hoover
Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.
- Herman Melville
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
- JRR Tolkien