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Justice Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
- You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
- You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and…
- The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.
- For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and…
- They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
- We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
- If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
- What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the…
- One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to…
- What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
- 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…
- The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the…
- Where justice is denied, wherepoverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and whereany one class is made to feel that society is in an organizedconspiracy to…
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Disco is just jitterbug. — Fred Astaire
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. — Saint Augustine
- Punishment is justice for the unjust. — Saint Augustine
- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet