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.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

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

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

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.

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.

I am a just man.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

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

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

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.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

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

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

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

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

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

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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

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

Due process should matter.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Justice is truth in action.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

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.

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.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

It is right to give every man his due.

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

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

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.