Jules Verne on justice

The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.

Ah! sir, live⁠—live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Jesse Jackson1941–2026

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

Clarence Darrow1857–1938

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