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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to M. de Menonville (October 1789)
- Liberty
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Preface to Brissot’s Address (1794)
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Retribution, from Friedrich von Logau, Sinngedichte, III, 2, 24
- God
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.
Malcolm X1925–1965Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
- Time
Justice is the end of Government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be pursued, until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
James Madison1751–1836Federalist No. 51 (6 February 1788)In context
- Government
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Idiot (1868–9), Part 1, Chapter 2 (tr. Frederick Whishaw, 1887)
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr1892–1971The Children of Light and The Children of Darkness (1944)
- Democracy
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.
Simone Weil1909–1943The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 192
- Love
- Power
The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.
Frantz Fanon1925–1961The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 9
- Race
There can be no social order without social justice.
Stokely Carmichael1941–1998Chapter Two, p. 53
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822A Defence of Poetry (1821)
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Endorsement of a letter relating to the Whiskey Ring (29 July 1875)
- Responsibility
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison… the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Civil Disobedience (1849)
- Government
Social and economic inequalities, for example inequalities of wealth and authority, are just only if they result in compensating benefits for everyone, and in particular for the least advantaged members of society.
John Rawls1921–2002A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), p. 14.
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 4
- Charity