#justic

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#again #against #am #appeals #court

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#consequence #country #democracy #distinct #general

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#born #cause #child #christian #compassion

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#cannot #cry #dead #duty #justice

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#justice #laws #only #original #over

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#both #cannot #certain #country #either

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters. ↗

— Friedrich Ebert

#justice #sisters #twin

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

— Epicurus

#harm #harmed #justice #kind

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#end #enter #experts #fifth #grade

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. ↗

— Martin Luther

#conscience #die #end #eternal #justice