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"A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman."
"Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we out-wrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope."
"Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!"
"Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice"
"Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game."
"Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness."
"Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom."
"I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force."
"We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice."
"Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved."
"They who are to be judges must also be performers."
"For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all."
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
"But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind."
"A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?"
"Be just, and fear not."
"I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation."
"Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?"
"We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us."
"Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action."
