Law And Justice Quotes

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Relationship, Truth

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• True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Rights, Law, Justice

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

  Earl Warren

  Law, Justice, Legal System

  Earl Warren (1955). “The Law and the Future”

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• No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Respect, Freedom, Equality

  Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

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• If you want peace, work for justice.

  Pope Paul VI

  Wisdom, Peace, Truth

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Justice

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• The law is reason, free from passion.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Passion, Law

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1287a.32,

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• 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

  Peace, Patriotic, Ignorance

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• 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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Religious, Peace, Voice

  Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, "The Struggle Intensifies", 1970.

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• Law and justice are not always the same.

  Gloria Steinem

  Equality, Law, Justice

  "Open Secrets : Ninety-four Women in Touch with Our Time". Book by Barbaralee Diamonstein, 1972.

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  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

  Freedom, Philosophy, Military

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

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• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• The more laws, the less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Law

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• If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Law, Class

  "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

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• Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Change, Men, Law

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• Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Compassion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.197, Tara Publishing

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  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

  Law, Justice, May

  "Building a Life of Value: Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us". Book by Jason Merchey, 2005.

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• Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Justice, Civilized Nations

  Oration on day of Justice Story's funeral, Boston, Mass., 12 Sept. 1845

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• For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

  Aristotle

  Determination, Animal, Men

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.201, Collector's Library

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• Justice is incidental to law and order.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Order, Law, Justice

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Acceptance

  1962 Speech at Cornell College, Mt Vernon, Iowa. Reported in the Wall Street Journal, 13 Nov.

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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• The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

  Rebecca West

  Law, Justice, Choices

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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