I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.

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

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

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.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

How can we help President Obama?

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I love being in a courtroom.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

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.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

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

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

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

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

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

No public man can be just a little crooked.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

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

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.