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  • It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

    Change   Hope   Courage  
    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

  • Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

    Love   Heart   Compassion  
    Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.197, Tara Publishing
  • Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

    Fall   Bad Ass   Justice  
    John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor (1983). “Papers of John Adams”
  • There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

    Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken
  • In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

    Rights   Law   America  
  • Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.

    "Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.
  • Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

    Religious   Peace   Voice  
    Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, "The Struggle Intensifies", 1970.
  • It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

    Law   Justice   Humanity  
    "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775
  • For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

    Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.201, Collector's Library
  • Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

    Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886
  • Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

    Fall   Law   Justice  
  • At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

    Philosophy   Animal   Men  
  • An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

    Equality   Men   Law  
  • If you want peace, work for justice.

    Wisdom   Peace   Truth  
    Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company
  • The more laws, the less justice.

    Peace   War   Law  
  • In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

  • In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

    Peace   Anger   Sleep  
    "The Red Lily". Book by Anatole France, 1894.
  • Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

    Oration on day of Justice Story's funeral, Boston, Mass., 12 Sept. 1845
  • Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

    Law   Giving   Justice  
  • It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

    1962 Speech at Cornell College, Mt Vernon, Iowa. Reported in the Wall Street Journal, 13 Nov.
  • Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

    "The works of Walter Savage Landor". Edited by J. Forster,
  • It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

    Earl Warren (1955). “The Law and the Future”
  • But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

    Real   Law   Justice  
    Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.43, Beacon Press
  • We will accomplish all of the steps .And, when we do, peace and law and justice and prosperity will prevail. Crime will go down. Border crossings will plummet. Gangs will disappear.

    Law   Justice   Borders  
    Source: time.com
  • I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

    Law   Skills   Justice  
  • No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

    Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).
  • Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

    Men   Law   People  
    "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.
  • Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

    Law   Justice   World  
    William Gaddis (2002). “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.83, Penguin
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