Justice is never given; it is exacted.

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

— Yoko Ono

I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all…

— Brian Wildsmith

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

— Al Capp

Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...…

— Nina Simone

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to…

— Mardy Grothe

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

— Denzel Washington

Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's…

— Janelle Monae

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

A low-minded person should not be given good advice.

— Chanakya

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in…

— John Hagee

I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will…

— Bill Johnson