“...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. ...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
“Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”
“Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.”
“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one s ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there s no fairness on earth.”
“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection, and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
“Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”
“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action ; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a more convenient season. Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
“Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.”
“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you ve heard the other side.”
“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that s not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
“ In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped. You consider that unjust, Serenity? We consider it cruel, Maia said. And we do not think that cruelty is ever just. ”
“Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.”