Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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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.
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 conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property will be safe.
Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
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.
My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
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.
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.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.
