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If
we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. -- Francis
Bacon
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It
is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. --
Voltaire
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with
moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of
harmony with moral law... One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly,
lovingly and with a willingness to accept the penalty. -- Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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Somehow,
our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of
injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused. -- Max Beerbohm
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Justice
is conscience, not a personal conscience but a conscience of the whole of
humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own
conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. -- Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
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There
is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between
men. -- Epicurus
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If
you study the history and records of the world, you must admit that the
source of justice was the fear of injustice. -- Horace
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Justice!
Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian
of the world's errors. -- Ugo Betti
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..."forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew." -- Desmond Tutu
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... "My father possessed a proud rebelliousness,
a stubborn sense of fairness, that I recognize in myself." ... "I learned
early that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an
unnecessarily cruel fate." ... "Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents
without dishonoring them." -- Nelson Mandela
