justice Quotes

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.