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"Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them."
"This is a court of law, not a court of justice."
"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
"Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race."
"The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied."
"The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is a story of the ideals of equality, fraternity and social and economic justice struggling against the forces of domination, exploitation, intolerance and tyranny."
"The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler."
"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."
"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."
"Life is just one damned thing after another."
"I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more."
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe."
"Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything."
"If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege."
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . ."
"Justice is the soul of the universe."
"My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine."
"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
"Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal."
"Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things."
