I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

I am a just man.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

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

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

Freedom is not enough.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

Effective action is always unjust.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.