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Justice

Abolishing poverty in the 21st century must become a collective responsibility since human life is not safe in the rich nations if human despair travels in poor nations.--Mahub Ul Haq (quoted in The Impossible Will Take a While ed. by Loeb)
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.--Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics)
Almighty God, grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil, and to make no peace with oppression; and, that we may reverently use our freedom, help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice among people and nations. (The Book of Common Prayer)
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.--Arundhati Roy (The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire)
The best guarantee for justice in public dealings is the participation in their own government of the people most likely to suffer from injustice.--John Morley (On Compromise)
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.--Peter Ustinov
Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.--John Ruskin ("Work" The Crown of Wild Olive)
Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.--Bishop John Shelby Spong (" Bishop Spong Q&A on loving thy neighbor," 7/20/2005)
Give no bounties: makes equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good judge doesn't know the strength of the plaintiff's case until he's heard the defense.--William Sheffield
The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.--Bishop John Shelby Spong (" Bishop Spong Q&A on loving thy neighbor," 7/20/2005)
The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Aphorisms)
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?--Byron
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.--Abraham Lincoln
I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice.--Hannah Green I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)
If ... the machine of government ... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.--Henry David Thoreau
If you feel an aversion to a person--that is, an unexplainable feeling of dislike or distaste for him--it is the most dangerous time for a proper opinion of him, his character, or his actions. Any judgment you pass upon him at such a time is bound to be unfair.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.--H. L. Mencken (Prejudices: Third Series)
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.--Voltaire (Zadig)
It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.--Rose Elizabeth Bird
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure.--William Sloane Coffin
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune--the ally of patient Time--that holds an even and scrupulous balance.--Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim)
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.--Walt Whitman
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.--Daniel Defoe (The Shortest Way with Dissenters)
Justice is like fire; if one covers it with a veil, it still burns.--Madagascan Proverb
Justice is the truth in action.--Joseph Joubert (Penses)
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.--Elias Canetti ("The Crowd in History: Distribution and Increase" Crowds and Power)
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.--Benjamin Franklin
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.--Socrates
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.--Reinhold Niebuhr
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.--J. R R. Tolkien (Fellowship of the Ring)
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.--Richard Bach
Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.--John Shelby Spong (Jesus for the Non Religious)
Not by measuring our knowledge, but by admitting the grandeur of the unknowable and telling ourselves that we depend entirely on it, shall we attain the full amplitude of our soul and the greatest measure of justice in our life.--Jeanne de Veitinghoff (The Understanding of Good)
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?--William James
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.--Thomas Fuller, M. D. (Gnomologia)
Stop judging so that you will not be judged. Otherwise, you will be judged by the same standard you use to judge others. The standards you use for others will be applied to you.--Matthew 7:1-2 (God's Word Version)
The story of Holy Week as Mark and the other gospels tell it enables us to hear the passion of Jesus-what he was passionate about-that led to his execution. His passion was the kingdom of God, what life would be like on earth if God were king, and the rulers, domination systems, and empires of this world were not. It is the world that the prophets dreamed of-a world of distributive justice in which everybody has enough and systems are fair. And it is not simply a political dream. It is God's dream, a dream that can only be realized by being grounded ever more deeply in the reality of god, whose heart is justice. Jesus's passion got him killed. But God has vindicated Jesus. This is the political meaning of Good Friday and Easter.--Marcus Borg & John Dominic Crossan (The Last Week)
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.--Elie Wiesel
Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.--William Hazlitt (Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims)
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.--Dwight David Eisenhower
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature: to be so to the utmost of our agilities is the glory of man.--Joseph Addison
The triumph of justice is the only peace.--Robert C. Ingersoll (Prose-Poems and Selections)
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?--William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
When rich speculators prosper while farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn-all this is robbery and chaos.--Lao-tzu (Tao Te Ching trans. by Stephen Mitchell)
When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.--Jimmy Carter (Living Faith)
You mortals, the Lord has told you what is good.
This is what the Lord requires from you:
to do what is right,
to love mercy,
and to live humbly with your God.--Micah 6:8 (God's Word Version)