Jesse Jackson on justice

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

Keep hope alive!

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

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

Clarence Darrow1857–1938

• Patriotism

If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.

Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776)In context

• Liberty