Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

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

More law, less justice.

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

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

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.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

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

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

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.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

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

Freedom is not enough.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

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

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

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

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

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

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

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

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

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.

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.

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.

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?

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

I love being in a courtroom.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.