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~ Charity begins at home and justice begins next door. ~

~ It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~

~ Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ~

Frederick Douglass

~ Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. ~

Gloria Steinem

~ Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ~

Haile Selassie

~ The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment--or at least much handicap--to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need. ~

Michael Parenti

~ Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. ~

Confucius 551BC

~ Justice is truth in action. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. ~

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

~ What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply. ~

Barbara Strickland

~ The history of the world is the world's court of justice. ~

Friedrich Von Schiller

~ Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness ~

Henri-FrÈdÈric Amiel

~ True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. ~

Spinoza

~ Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ The history of the world is the world's court of justice. ~

Friedrich Von Schiller

~ The history of the world is the world's court of justice. ~

Friedrich Von Schiller

~ Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. ~

Spinoza

~ What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black. ~

Robert F. Kennedy

~ We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive ~

Aldo Leopold

~ Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. ~

George Washington

~ There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace. ~

Bourke Coekran

~ Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone, extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic, whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling, never a gentleman. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty ~

Brooks Atkinson

~ That no free government, or the blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles ~

George Mason

~ Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary ~

Reinhold Niebuhr

~ The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself. ~

Ben Jonson

~ Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. ~

Helen Keller

~ Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ~

Samuel Johnson

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