Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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More Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
› Voltaire
My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
› Mohandas Gandhi
Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
› Plato
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
› William Faulkner
Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
› Coretta Scott King
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
› Marcus Aurelius
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
› Adam Smith
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
› Albert Einstein
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
› Constitution of the United States
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
› Sigmund Freud
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
› James Baldwin
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
› Abraham Lincoln
