I submit that 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 law.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

It is right to give every man his due.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Morality is contraband in war.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

Freedom is not enough.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who’s spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

I was not an activist.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

Compassion is the basis of morality.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.