Justice proverbs

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◆ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel99

◆ The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

- George R.R. Martin99

◆ Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

- Mae West99

◆ Truth never damages a cause that is just.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero99

◆ If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

- Ernesto Guevara99

◆ If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

- David Sedaris99

◆ Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert F. Kennedy99

◆ More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

- John Powell98

◆ The foundation of justice is good faith.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero98