Justice and Equality

So Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that.

 

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. J.R.R.

 

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

No fetters in the Bay State—no slave upon our land!

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

How small, of all that human hearts endure,

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.

He who seeks equality amongst unequals seeks the absurd .

[ On women in the United States :] They live in the midst of a country where there is no end to the laws and no beginning to the execution of them.

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements ofthis last convulsion.

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak.

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?… The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Justice is truth in action.

I shot the sheriff

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the blackness of corroding despair.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.