An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
Next to religion let your care be to promote justice.
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.'
All human laws are properly speaking only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
All too often arrogance accompanies strength and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
It is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer and then itself marches upon neighboring lands killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Justice and power must be brought together so that whatever is just may be powerful and whatever is powerful may be just.
When I got into the film business my aim was to adopt a positive persona of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
I hate injustice and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Justice sir is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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.
I think that the job of poetry its political job is to refresh the idea of justice which is going dead in us all the time.
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
Churchill knew the importance of peace and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice of course. He stressed strategy but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty justice and mercy.
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals to look out for hypocrisy advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back back to the heights of greatness back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.