Justice Quotes
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You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
Saint Augustine
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Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of bridges across lines of moral justice.
Hilary Beckles
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To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.
David Dudley Field II
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The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
Ken MacLeod
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this Nation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.
Adolf Hitler
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we have the great privilege to represent clients in all facets of our practice, and that includes making the commitment to represent clients for whom access to representation and ultimately justice is limited by economics. As all of the “20 for 20 honorees have done, stepping up to meet that commitment is at the heart of what it means to be a lawyer. I hope the inspiring stories and contributions of my fellow honorees will shine a bright light on FDLA and this most important mission.
Terrence J
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We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice or injustice; and likewise for those peoples who either could not or would not form binding agreements not to inflict nor suffer harm. (32)
Epicurus
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Justice too long delayed is justice denied.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.
John Rawls
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It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
Benjamin Cardozo
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If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.
Neal Brennan
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Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.
Maura Tierney
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The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
Dionne Warwick
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.
Carter G. Woodson
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One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
Charles Brenton Huggins
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A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
Craig Brown
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Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.
Thomas Sowell
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In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.
Paul Dini