justice
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”
“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”
“The laws exist for the sake of the wise, not that they may not do wrong, but that they may not be wronged.”
“It is not possible to live pleasantly without living prudently and honorably and justly.”
“Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.”
“Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven.”
“One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression”
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
“To be neutral, to be passive in a situation, is to collaborate with whatever is going on.”
“A God all mercy is a God unjust.”
“I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner.”
“You don't take your case to the criminal; you take your criminal to court.”
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made.”
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”
“Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
“What you cannot enforce, do not command.”
“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.”