I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

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.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

A right delayed is a right denied.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

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.

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

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

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

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

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

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

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

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

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

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.‘

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

It is right to give every man his due.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

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

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

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

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.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

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

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

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

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.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

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

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

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

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

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.

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.