Quotes about Justice
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
— George Bernard Shaw
I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
— Oscar Wilde
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.
— Sojourner Truth
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
— Thomas Jefferson
Revenge is an inhuman word.
— Seneca
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
— Henry David Thoreau
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
— Aristotle
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
— Oscar Wilde
Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Heaven itself has ordained the right.
— George Washington
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt