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

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

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.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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

Clever tyrants are never punished.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

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

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.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

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.

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

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

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

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

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

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.

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.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.

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

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.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he’s very funny and very smart.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

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

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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

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

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

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.