Justice

“The principle, however, upon which I found the necessity of abolition is not Policy but Justice.”

“Justice, like peace, is indivisible and the world today cannot remain half free and half slave.”

“the dream of all human rights for all.”

“What happens in South Africa will be determined by power, not by who's right or wrong.”

“I did not doubt of the final triumph of the cause, which would be to despair of God's justice.”

“God’s assertion and subversion of distributive justice”

“legal murder”

“Until we put human rights at the centre, we will never have a handle on crime.”

“For "liberty" to mean anything, it should only be limited as necessary and by law.”

“But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”

“Everyone should be granted their fundamental rights.”

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

“No cause is more worthy than the cause of human rights. Human rights are more than legal concepts; they are the essence of man. They are what make man human.”

“Was verstehen wir unter dem Rechte der Frau? – Nichts anderes, als das Recht des Menschen überhaupt.”

“La convivencia en paz en una sociedad radica en que los derechos de las personas sean no sólo reconocidos, sino el fundamento de esa convivencia en paz.”

“It’s not a moral thing, like a duty, but there’s so much injustice that you have to speak out; it comes from the heart.”

“No estamos pidiendo quitas ni privilegios, estamos luchando por una verdadera justicia fiscal.”

“The whole world, which is in a sense a commonwealth, has the power to enact laws which are just and convenient to all men; and these make up the law of nations.”

“A nation can endure with unbelief, but it cannot endure with injustice.”

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain—is floating in mid-air—until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”