The best guarantee for justice in public dealings is the participation in their own government of the people most likely to suffer from injustice.             —John Morley

Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled, or sick without care.      —Bill Moyers

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

                       —G.K. Chesterton

Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don’t love him, and you will come to hate him.   

                            —-John Ruskin

A good judge doesn’t know the strength of the plaintiff’s case until he’s heard the defense.         

                    —William Sheffield

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but more by clear discernment and impartial justice.               

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.         

                 —Benjamin Franklin

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.        

                    —Reinhold Niebuhr

Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.           —Thomas Fuller

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.    

                               —Elie Wiesel