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  • #1
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #3
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #4
    Cassandra Clare
    “Do not seek revenge and call it justice.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #5
    Voltaire
    “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
    Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

  • #6
    Theodore Parker
    “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
    Theodore Parker

  • #7
    “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
    Cornel West

  • #8
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #9
    Confucius
    “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
    Confucius, The Analects

  • #10
    Paul Kalanithi
    “The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #11
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

  • #12
    William Penn
    “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
    William Penn

  • #13
    Margaret Atwood
    “Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

  • #14
    Montesquieu
    “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)”
    Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

  • #15
    Dorothy Day
    “Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
    Dorothy Day

  • #16
    Isaiah Berlin
    “Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
    Isaiah Berlin

  • #17
    William Gaddis
    “Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
    William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

  • #18
    Victor Hugo
    “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #19
    A.W. Tozer
    “Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.”
    A.W. Tozer

  • #20
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #21
    Euripides
    “In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
    Euripides, The Children of Herakles

  • #22
    Gail Carson Levine
    “Who judges the judge who judges wrong?”
    Gail Carson Levine, Fairest

  • #23
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #24
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War 1942-49

  • #25
    Sun Tzu
    “Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine”
    Sun Tzu

  • #26
    Blaise Pascal
    “Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
    Blaise Pascal

  • #27
    Aristotle
    “The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.”
    Aristotle

  • #28
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #29
    Alexander Hamilton
    “Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.”
    Alexander Hamilton

  • #30
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    Aristotle



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