#justice

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#age #being #congress #die #enough

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#cured #evils #fighting #goals #ignorance

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#bread #cultivate #desire #feel #fields

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#almost #certainly #component #essential #first

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

— Edmund Burke

#in my opinion #justice #liberty #made #neither

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#authorize #government #judge #jury #justice

Who judges the judge who judges wrong? ↗

— Gail Carson Levine

#justice #justice

A unjust law, is no law at all. ↗

— Martin Luther

#law #justice

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#justice

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#war #justice