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~ 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

~ There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice ~

Grover Cleveland

~ There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. ~

Stephen Spender

~ Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. ~

Harry S Truman

~ The foundation of justice is good faith. ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. ~

Voltaire

~ What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures ~

Samuel Gompers

~ It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. ~

Carl T. Rowan

~ The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice ~

John Adams

~ True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. ~

Clarence Seward Darrow

~ He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees. ~

Samuel Butler

~ Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. ~

Harrison Ford

~ Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. ~

Harrison Ford

~ He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind. ~

Joseph Addison

~ They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans ~

George F. Will

~ 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

~ Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman ~

Seneca

~ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest ~

Elie Wiesel

~ If it were up to me I would close Guant·namo not tomorrow but this afternoon...Essentially, we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system...and it's causing us far more damage than any good we get from it. ~

Colin Powell

~ Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. ~

Martin Luther

~ Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an injustice collector and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity. ~

Edmund Bergler

~ The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. ~

Albert Pike

~ In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ~

Saint Augustine

~ Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. ~

Orson Welles

~ I think the first duty of society is justice ~

Alexander Hamilton

~ Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. ~

Henry Louis Gates

~ Fairness is what justice really is. ~

Potter Stewart

~ I think the first duty of society is justice. ~

Alexander Hamilton

~ Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor ~

Charles Brockden Brown

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