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•“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin
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•“Justice delayed is justice denied.”
― William E. Gladstone
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•“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
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•“It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.”
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•“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
― Jane Addams
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•“If you want peace work for justice.”
― Pope Paul VI
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•“Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.”
― Thomas Jefferson
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•“Justice is truth in action.”
― Benjamin Disraeli
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•“A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist”
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•“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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•“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri
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•“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― William Gaddis
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•“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”
― Marcus Aurelius
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•“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.”
― Malcolm X
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•“A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.”
― Walter Savage Landor
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•“Justice is the sum of all moral duty.”
― William Godwin
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•“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.”
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•“The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.”
― Christopher Darden
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•“Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.”
― Thucydides
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•“In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.”
― Petrus Borel
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•“ justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.”
― Gregory David Roberts
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•“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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•“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”
― Friedrich Schiller
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•“Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.”
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•“This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes
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•“It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice”
― Thomas Jefferson
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•“It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.”
― Petrus Borel
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•“To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.”
― Roseanne Barr
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•“Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.”
― Mason Cooley
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•“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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•“The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.”
― Sargent Shriver
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•“Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.”
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•“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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•“Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
― Victor Hugo
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•“Delay in justice is injustice.”
― Walter Savage Landor
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•“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
― William Penn
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•“The sword of justice has no scabbard.
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•“The place of justice is a hallowed place.”
― Francis Bacon
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•“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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•“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
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•“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”
― Charles Dickens
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•“I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
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•“It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.”
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•“Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
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•“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
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•“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr
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•“If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.”
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•“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
― Confucius
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•“Fairness is what justice really is.”
― Potter Stewart
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•“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire
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•“When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.”
― Chuck Jones
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•“Fidelity is the sister of justice.”
― Horace
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•“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
― George Bernard Shaw
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•“If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.”
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•“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”
― Orson Welles
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•“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold
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•“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
― Thomas Jefferson
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•“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
― George Washington
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•“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
― Isaiah Berlin
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•“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
― Aristotle
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•“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Guevara
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