Justice Quotes for Labor Day

By Evan M. Goldberg

In honor of Labor Day, we decided to share some of Evan’s favorite quotes:

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.” -Aristotle

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” -Churchill

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” -Gandhi

“Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.” -Thoreau

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them” -Bujold

“It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.” -Angelou

“Fairness is what justice really is.” -Potter Stewart

“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.” -Cicero

“I think the first duty of society is justice.” -Hamilton

“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.” -Nader

“True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.” -Sacks

“The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.” -Raymond Chandler

“Exlusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.” -Tutu

“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.” -Nieburhr

”Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured” -Thucydides.