A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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

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

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.