Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• God
• justice

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. Malcolm X

• freedom
• equality
• justice
• initiative

The world stands in more need of justice than charity, and indeed it is the want of justice that renders charity everywhere so necessary. Benjamin Rush

• charity
• justice

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, and exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! Thomas Jefferson

• justice
• slavery

This is the context.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party. Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi

• justice

Sometimes it's more important to be merciful than to be fair. Dennis Bomgaars

• justice
• fairness

This is the source.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater

• justice
• liberty

To do harm is to do yourself harm. To do an injustice is to do yourself an injustice - it degrades you. Marcus Aurelius

• justice

This is the source.

By the democratic principles we espouse, government cannot have a right that citizens do not grant it. There are certain things that a person has no right to do. A person has no right to murder or rape another. Therefore, people cannot grant government authority to murder and rape. Similarly, no person has the right to forcibly take the property of one person in order to give it to another. Therefore, people cannot grant government authority to do the same thing. If I forcibly took property from one person, for any reason, most people would condemn it as theft, an immoral act. Theft or any other immoral act does not become moral because it is done by government acting on behalf of a consensus or majority vote just as murder or rape does not become a moral act simply because of a consensus or majority vote. Walter E. Williams

• government
• justice
• rights

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever. John Adams

• justice
• law

Not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it. Nonetheless, people will often accept or even amplify their own suffering, as well as that of others, if they can brandish it as evidence of the world's injustice. Jordan Peterson

• justice