#justic

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public ↗

— Cornel West

#love #society #wisdom #love

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#between #diplomatic #discussion #every #every nation

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#exact #exact measure #find #imposed #injustice

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#anything #before #claims #else #enlightenment

Let justice be done, though the world perish. ↗

— Ferdinand I

#justice #perish #though #world

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary. ↗

— Hans Frank

#endeavor #first #german #independent #judiciary

The big tyrants never face justice. ↗

— George Galloway

#face #justice #never #tyrants

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, - "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart were hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#humanity #justice #law #soldier #art

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #correction #distinction #hatred #instigation

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour. ↗

— Auberon Waugh

#attitude