The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn't justified in some countries.
The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.
It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.
This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We, conservatives, want a particular legal philosophy, a philosophy for how to interpret the Constitution.
It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.
People in Indonesia are scared of being assaulted, insulted, robbed or raped. Again, it is because they are unprotected. Police and even the legal system are corrupt orand on the side of the rich. Victims see no justice. How could you not be scared in almost total lawlessness?
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?
The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the
Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.
I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system. " I'm sure they'd like those things, but it's not what they demand in the demonstrations. In the demonstrations, they talk about justice, they talk about an end to Israeli occupation.
We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self.
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.