Justice Quotes - Page 40

• Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with worldly policy and order, clothes itself with the name of justice and becomes like a seed of discord in the soul.

  John Woolman

  Order, Names, Clothes

  John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.307, Boston : J.R. Osgood

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• It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Charity, Doe

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Atheist, Example, Divine

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• The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Lying, Ignorant, Care

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• Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

  Gerry Spence

  Honesty, Passion, Fighting

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• I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Destiny, Atlanta, Ideas

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing starvation. Before such statistics, believers should never forget Dostoevsky's assertion that the suffering of children is the greatest proof against the existence of God; for without justice, there is no God.

  Thomas Cahill

  Children, Night, Suffering

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels”, p.252, Anchor

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• What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.

  Frederick Douglass

  Giving, Legs, Chance

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Agreement, Ideas, Tasks

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• There's no justice in this world.

  Frank Costello

  World, This World

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• If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

  Alan Keyes

  Religious, Foundation, Republic

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• Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

  Aristotle

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• Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.

  William S. Burroughs

  God Exists, Happened, Convinced

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• The Justice Dept. is the new F.E.M.A.

  Bill Press

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• Justice is no longer a concern of the justice system.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Concern, Justice System

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• It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Order, Moral

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• Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Human Life, Inseparable, Humans

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• Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.

  John Dickinson

  Children, Humanity, Honor

  "A Library of American Literature From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time". Book by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Volume 3, 'A Duty to Posterity' (pp. 177-178), 1892.

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• For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fighting, People, Able

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

  Father, Race, Blood

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

  Murray Leinster

  Children, Ideas, Barbarians

  Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.141, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Mercy trumps justice.

  Pat Robertson

  Mercy, Trump

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• As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures, just as soon shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty but of crime.

  Miriam A. Ferguson

  Kindness, School, Roots

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• In the name of justice the most savage and revolting acts are perpetrated.

  Ricardo Flores Magon

  Names, Savages

  Ricardo Flores Magón (2000). “Correspondencia: Correspondencia 1 (1899-1918)”

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• To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.

  Ameen Rihani

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Views, Appreciate

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