The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
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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.
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.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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?
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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.
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.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.