Justice Quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
Mark Pryor

Time, Equality, Courage

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
Ferdinand Lassalle

Power, Understand, Matter

Without justice you won't have stability.
Saad Hariri

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.
Bob Kerrey

Fighting, Social, Economic

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
Herb Kohl

Trust, Power, May

We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
Feisal Abdul Rauf

Truth, Country, Others

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.
Kathleen Wynne

Why, Here, Social

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.
Ricardo Lagos

Speak, Interfere

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
Joseph Story

Wisdom, True, Integrity

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
Benjamin Cardozo

Storm, She, Taken

The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

Education, Equality, Ignorance

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
Robert Hass

Time, Poetry, Job

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Faith, Hurt, Pain

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.
Chen Guangcheng

Love, Family, Gratitude

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
Tarja Halonen

Freedom, Equality, Strong

I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
Howard Baker

Great, Hope, Government

We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
Barbara Lee

War, Evil, Sure

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.
George Nethercutt

Understand, Free, Others

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
Adam Hochschild

Peace, Society, Working

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
Samuel Hopkins

Humanity, Free, Put

When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'
Mickey Rooney

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
Alvaro Uribe

Peace, Cannot, Name

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
Kelly Ayotte

Good, Respect, Greatest

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
Lucy Stone

Truth, Speak, Turn

Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice.
Jeanne Shaheen

Gay, Important, Long

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Rudolf Otto

Religion, Deep, Lie

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
John Rawls

Ignorance, Behind, Principles

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
Abdoulaye Wade

Education, Individual, Seems

I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.
Teddy Sheringham

End, Game, Lost

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
Peter Benenson

Freedom, Today, Help

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