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.

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.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant 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?

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.

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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.

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

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

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

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.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

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

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

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.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

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

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

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

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

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

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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

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.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

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.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

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.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

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

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

I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

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

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

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.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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

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.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Racism is real in this country.

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

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

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