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• It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

  Oscar Arias

  Revenge, Confused, Two

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• Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

  Epicurus

  Men, Ethics, Fairness

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• Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Eye, Justice For All, Long

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4411, Library of Alexandria

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• Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

  Blaise Pascal

  Powerful, Together, May

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.265

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• A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

  Horace

  Umpires, Judging, Faithful

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• Justice is the truth in action.

  Joseph Joubert

  Action

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• Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

  George Eliot

  Kingdoms, Facts, Yearning

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6233, Delphi Classics

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• There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

  Hugo Black

  Men, Trials, Kind

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• One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

  Ida B. Wells

  Dog, Fighting, Rats

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

  Wendell Berry

  Law, Competition, Roaches

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.212, Counterpoint

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• Conscience is the chamber of justice.

  Origen

  Ethics, Fairness, Chamber

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, p. 46, 1899.

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

  Denis Diderot

  Literature, Firsts, Virtue

  "The Golden Treasury of Thought: A Gathering of Quotations from the Best Ancient and Modern Authors". Book by Theodore Taylor, p. 227, 1873.

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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• A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

  Robert Breault

  Broken, Bent

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• Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rewards, Sake, Kind

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I, 18, c. 43 BC.

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• Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Winning

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Men, Abstract

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• Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Omnipotence, Perfection, Exertion

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• Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Fall, Eye, Light

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• The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.

  Charles Wagner

  Men, Views, Long

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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• Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Speak, Judgment

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338

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• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Sad

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

  Corazon Aquino

  Peace, Justice For All, Diversity

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• No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Ambition, Simple, Men

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