Quotes about justice
justice experience innocence
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it. James A. Baldwin
justice slave born
Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master. James A. Baldwin
justice cant
You cant have justice unless you have truth. Hill Harper
justice perspective important
It is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we'll figure out what was going on in the meantime. Hillary Clinton
justice racism criminal-justice
We've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system. Hillary Clinton
justice judging people
I want to appoint Supreme Court justices who understand the way the world really works, who have real-life experience, who have not just been in a big law firm and maybe clerked for a judge and then gotten on the bench, but, you know, maybe they tried some more cases, they actually understand what people are up against. Hillary Clinton
justice criminal-justice
I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform. Hillary Clinton
justice goal enabling
...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves. Hillary Clinton
justice presidential destruction
We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself. Herbert Hoover
justice endeavor attainment
The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor. Florence Ellinwood Allen
justice support injustice
To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice. Fannie Lou Hamer
justice social-justice
When I liberate others, I liberate myself. Fannie Lou Hamer
justice next care
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. Francis Bacon
justice ears
The place of justice is a hallowed place. Francis Bacon
justice fairness criminal-justice
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. Francis Bacon
justice humanity may
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations. George Washington
justice honor safe
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice. George Washington
justice religion doe
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? George Washington
justice bars spirit
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience. George Santayana
justice heaven principles
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour. George Santayana
justice fighter peace-and-justice
I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out. George McGovern
justice wish honest
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.
justice president hussein
I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want - I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive. George W. Bush
justice people peaceful
The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice. George W. Bush
justice building nations
We're not into nation-building. We're into justice. George W. Bush
justice enemy done
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. George W. Bush
justice people pity
In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. Frederick Douglass
justice pity benevolence
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. Frederick Douglass
justice height depth
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed. Frederick Douglass
justice mercy grammar
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things. Frederick Buechner
justice democracy communism
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. Fidel Castro
justice prison crime
For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn. Henry Miller
justice criticism firsts
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. Henri Frederic Amiel