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JUSTICE: The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. (Unknown Source)
JUSTICE: The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. (Unknown Source)
JUSTICE: The arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice. (Unknown Source)
JUSTICE: Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. (Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)
JUSTICE: A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader, U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934Charity: A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader, U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934Incarceration: The U.S. incarcerates more people than China - an authoritarian state - with 4 times the U.S. population. (Mike Lofgren, U.S. author and former U.S. Congressional aide)
JUSTICE: The arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
JUSTICE: We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop, ancient Greek storyteller, 620-564 BCE)
JUSTICE: Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makesdemocracy necessary. (Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)
JUSTICE: I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
JUSTICE: Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? (Lillian Hellman, U.S. dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism, 1905-1984)
JUSTICE: A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader, U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934)
JUSTICE: As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practice or neglect to practice the primary duties of justice and humanity. (William Henry Seward, U.S. politician who was a determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, 1801-1872)
JUSTICE: Never of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge. (Unknown source)
JUSTICE: Never of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge. (Unknown source)