Justice Quotes

"I believe in human equality."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"All people deserve dignity."

"The case and the cause of America is the case and cause of all mankind."

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression."

"When the rich plunder the poor of his rights it becomes an example to the poor to plunder the rich of his property."

"Nations may be ranked among themselves by the condition of their poor."

"Society needs only a few laws, but it needs them to be just."

"No man has a right to do wrong; no man has a right to tell another to do wrong."

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others."

"The moment a man casts loose from the principles of natural justice, he is inevitably lost."

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural right on suspicion."

"No punishment has been too severe for the man that ruins the morals of youth."

"Be just and good, let every object of your life be your country's good."

"I have been called a feminist, and that is something I am proud of."

"Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights."

"I have been called a feminist, and that is something I am proud of because feminism means striving for equality."

"We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever."

"I feel, as never before, that this is preeminently the time to do justice to woman."

"The object of this convention is to discuss the great fundamental principle of the natural equality of the sexes."

"If the government assigns to women the duties of citizens, it must assign to them also the rights."

"I demand that woman shall have the same rights as man in the acquisition of property and the custody of children."

"A woman who demands equal rights is called unwomanly, but a man demanding his rights is called a patriot."

"The question of the hour is whether woman has any rights at all."

"The equality of women with men is part of the eternal character of justice."

"The subjection of women is the fundamental principle of slavery in all its forms."

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place."

"I want to talk about the wrongs of the Indian too, those first Americans; some of the creatures that you don't call men."

"I am pleading with the American people to deal justly with those people who have been held as slaves."