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We decided one day to do something for Justice.  Beate Klarsfeld

 

 

It has been said that I have two alternatives: either go to jail or go to the army.  But I would like to say that there is another alternative: and that alternative is Justice.  Muhammad Ali

 

 

Is a government worth preserving when it lies to the people? ...  Let justice be done though the heavens fall.  JFK ***** 1991 starring Kevin Costner & Sissy Spacek & Tommy Lee Jones & Kevin Bacon & Laurie Metcalf & Gary Oldman & Michael Rooker & Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau & Joe Pesci & John Candy et al, director Oliver Stone, Garrison

 

 

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.  Martin Luther King

 

 

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.  Martin Luther King

 

 

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.  Martin Luther King

 

 

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organised conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.  Frederick Douglass

 

 

You never expected justice from a company, did you?  They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick.  Sydney Smith

 

 

Mans capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.  Reinhold Niebuhr

 

 

And since theres no justice in earth nor hell,

We will solicit heaven and more the gods

To send down justice for to wreak our wrongs.  William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus IV iii 50-53

 

 

Though justice be thy plea, consider this,

That in the course of justice none of us

Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,

And that same prayer doth teach us all to render

The deeds of mercy. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice IV i 197

 

 

For ’tis the sport to have the engineer

Hoist with his own petar.  William Shakespeare, Hamlet III iv 207, Hamlet to Mother

 

 

See how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief.  Hark in thy ear: handy-dandy, which is the thief, which is the justice?  William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear IV v @146, Lear

 

A dog’s obeyed in office.

Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand.

Why dost thou lash that whore?  Strip thine own back.

Thy blood as hotly lusts to use her in that kind

For which thou whip’st her.  The usurer hangs the cozener.

Through tattered rage small vices do appear;

Robes and furred gowns hides all.  ibid.  IV v 152, Lear

 

 

We still have judgement here, that we but teach

Bloody instructions which, being taught, return

To plague th’ inventor.  This even-handed justice

Commends th’ ingredience of our poisoned chalice

To our own lips.  William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth I vii @8 Macbeth

 

 

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity.  Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

 

Injustice is relatively easy to bear.  What stings is justice.  H L Mencken, US editor

 

 

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.  John Stuart Mill

 

 

These books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.  Franz Kafka, The Trial   

 

 

Yet I shall temper so

Justice with mercy.  John Milton, Paradise Lost 10:77

 

 

To no-one will we sell, to no-one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.  Magna Carta article 40

 

 

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.  Lord Mansfield, Somerset v Stewart, 1772 98 ER

 

 

In England, justice is open to all – like The Ritz hotel.  James Mathew, Irish judge

 

 

The Bush administration has made extraordinary claims and they’ve been upheld by the courts to a large extent.  They’ve claimed the right to imprison people including US citizens without charge, without access to lawyers or family and to do so indefinitely until the President declares the emergency over.  Professor Noam Chomsky, lecture University of Colorado 5th April 2003

 

 

Justice is truth in action.  Benjamin Disraeli, speech House of Commons 11th February 1851

 

 

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.  Henry Fielding, 1707-54, Tom Jones

 

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.  ibid.

 

 

Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled.  Justinian I, Institutes book 1 title 1

 

 

Justice is incidental to law and order.  J Edgar Hoover

 

 

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.  Oliver Wendell Holmes junior

 

 

Doth God pervert judgment?  Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?  Job 8:3

 

 

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.  Ecclesiastes 3:16

 

 

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.  Lenny Bruce

 

 

Smile, Karen, there is justice in the world.  Wall Street 1987 starring Michael Douglas & Charlie Sheen & Daryl Hannah & Martin Sheen & John C McGinley & Terence Stamp & James Karen & Jal Hobrook & Sean Young & James Spader et al, director Oliver Stone, Sheen junior

 

 

A man must be willing to die for justice.  Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.  Jesse Jackson, ‘Jesse Jackson: The Man, The Movement, The Myth’

 

 

The more laws, the less justice.  Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

 

The foundations of justice are that no one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.  Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis I:10

 

 

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.  Edmund Burke, letter 1789

 

 

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.  Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

 

 

So justice while she winks at crimes,

Stumbles on innocence sometimes.  Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Canto II:1,177

 

 

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.  Che Guevara, speech 1964

 

 

We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavour to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.  Hierocles, cited William W Snowden, 1840

 

 

I’m armed with more than complete steel,—

The justice of my quarrel.  Christopher Marlowe, Lust’s Dominion III:IV

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