With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Eating in a manner which is too elaborate is a source of injustice, since through such eating things are desired which need unjust trading or cooking.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
They could have done it better with an ax.
I think slavery is the next thing to hell.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
A nation cannot become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations.
She's the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?
