Justice Quotes - Page 32

• Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

  Malcolm X

  Land, Independence, Revolution

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• Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Objectivity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Goal, Judging, Deeds

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• The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Meditation

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.113, Delphi Classics

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• All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  White, America, Lynching

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• I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

  Albert Einstein

  Class, Differences, Lasts

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.

  Mason Cooley

  Mercy, Deals

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• We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

  Mason Cooley

  Injustice

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• Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

  Max Lucado

  Guarantees, Retribution, Diminish

  Max Lucado (2015). “You'll Get Through This (Miniature Edition): Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times”, p.164, Running Press

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• We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Suffering, Administration

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• The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

  Rose Bird

  Speak, Easy, Court

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• All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].

  William J. Brennan

  Ideas, Religion, Climate

  Roth v. United States (1957)

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• The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.

  William J. Brennan

  Religious, Exercise, Government

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• It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Men, Ignorant, Mind

  Valdez v. United States, 244 U.S. 432, 450, 1917.

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• It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

  Martha Griffiths

  Different, Prejudice, World

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• I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  New York, Real, Fighting

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• You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Business, Soul, Body

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• I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Rights, Progress, Taught

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hands, Law, Clean

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• Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Court, Decree

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• Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Neutrality, Impartiality, Partiality

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• Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Men, Law

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• Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Men, Numbers, Wife

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1962). “Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam”

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• I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although my religious education was very literal, in that I learnt to understand the precepts of the Koran precisely according to the text, we have seen that on several occasions throughout my life, I have felt myself to be very particularly in the hands of the Almighty.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Religious, Book, Hands

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 166, 1980.

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• Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

  Luc de Clapiers

  Self, Vices, Reason

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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