Quotes On Justice

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

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.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.