Justice Quotes

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

You’re allowed to disagree. You’re allowed to live differently. You’re allowed to struggle publicly, but I’m also allowed to NOT struggle publicly.

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.