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"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now; the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart."	Bill Chickering
"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."	Daniel Defoe
"Rigid justice is the greatest injustice."	Dr. Thomas Fuller
"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity."	Claude Adrien Helvetius
"The triumph of justice is the only peace."	Robert Green Ingersoll
"Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice."	Saint Augustine
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."	Edmund Burke
"We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity."	Will Rogers
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."	Benjamin Franklin
"It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest."	Author Unknown
"Sir, I say that justice is truth in action."	Benjamin Disraeli
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."	Jonathan Swift
"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."	Robert Francis Kennedy
"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."	Robert Francis Kennedy
"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."	Theodore Roosevelt
"We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were."	John Berger
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."	Reinhold Niebuhr
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Chuang-Tzu	Clarence Seward Darrow	Claude Adrien Helvetius
Confucius	Corazón Cojuangco Aquino	Daniel Defoe
Demosthenes	Dennis McKinsey	Dr. Thomas Fuller
Edmund Burke	Elizabeth II	Erma Louise Bombeck
Frederick Douglass	Friedrich August von Hayek	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Grover Cleveland	Henry Ford	Henry Bessemer
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Abram Garfield	Jesse Jackson
John Berger	John Cogley Commonweal	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jonathan Swift	Joseph Joubert	Julius Henry Marx
Leo Tolstoy	Leonard Bernstein	Lisa Alther
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcel Ayme	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Napolean Bonaparte	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pan Ku	Philip	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard David Bach	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll	R. J. Baughan
Saint Augustine	Saint Thomas Aquinas	Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Mincher	Will Rogers	William Hazlitt
William J. H. Boetcker	(Justin) Brooks Atkinson