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Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
 Justice renders to every one his due.
 [Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]  
 Justice renders to every one his due.
 [Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.] 
The place of justice is a hallowed place
The place of justice is a hallowed place
The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux read more
The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.
 Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, 
therefore, for her own sake.
 [Lat., Justitia read more 
 Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, 
therefore, for her own sake.
 [Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit praemii, nihil pretii: per se 
igitur expetitur.] 
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull read more
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred read more
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
 Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and 
any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, read more 
 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.