Justice and Equality

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Heaven will one day open

 

Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,

Courtroom: a place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the odds in favor of Judas.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

How wide the limits stand

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

The Klan is actually as thoroughly American as Rotary or the Moose. Its childish mummery is American, its highfalutin bombast is American, and its fundamental philosophy is American. The very essence of Americanism is the doctrine that the other fellow, if he happens to be in a minority, has absolutely no rights—that enough is done for him when he is allowed to live at all.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give thewhite man nothing else. But the fact is, you gotto give ’em something. Either your money, your land, your woman, or your ass.

Foolish men who accuse a woman mindlessly— you cannot even see you cause what you abuse.

 

It would be a master stroke if those great Powers honestly bent on peace would form a league of peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force if necessary, its being broken by others. The man or statesman who should bring about such a condition would have earned his place in history for all time and his title to the gratitude of all mankind.

When the peremptory challenges wereall exhausted, a jury of twelve men wereimpaneled—a jury who swore that they hadneither heard, read, talked about, nor expressedan opinion concerning a murder which thevery cattle in the corrals, the Indians in thesage-brush, and the stones in the street werecognizant of!

Every segment of our population and every individual has a right to expect from ourGovernment a fair deal.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose, Speaking clearly and most severely, Law is as I’ve told you before, Law is as you know I suppose, Law is but let me explain it once more, Law is The Law.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism: ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or any other controlling private power.

No knowledge considers or prescribes for the advantage of the stronger, but for that of the weaker, which it rules

Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, “social justice.”