Justice Quotes

"I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy against them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

"We have as much right to the use of this earth as any other people."

"Slavery is not abolished until the black man has equal rights before the law."

"I would have all the disadvantages removed."

"I accept not their excuses."

"I have a right to the fruits of my labor."

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

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical."

"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another."

"I want to speak to the condition of women, not that of men."

"We do as much work as a man, we eat as much when we can get it, and we want as much rights."

"Well, I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all."

"I wasn't born to be silent about injustice."

"I did not come here to make a fuss, I came to help the oppressed."

"Look here! I'm a woman, and women's got rights!"

"I ask no favors for my sex. I ask justice for my sex."

"I am a woman's righter as well as a colored woman."

"I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

"I believe to have interfered as I have done, as I have always openly avowed I intended to do, was not wrong but right."

"The condition of the slave is not improved by legal quibbles."

"The claims of justice are the claims of the Eternal."

"To be indifferent to injustice is to be complicit in it."

"The pursuit of justice is the highest calling of man."

"I stand with those who fight for the dignity of all people."

"I will not compromise with evil, not even for the sake of peace."

"The measure of a nation is how it treats its most vulnerable."

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

"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners, and of good order in society, than a proper regard and respect for those invested with the authority of the laws."