Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. ”

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ”

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. ”

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ”

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. ”

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq. ”

The Department of Justice is a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. ”

You do the best you can, looking at precedent, in trying to anticipate where the Supreme Court is going to draw the balance between the protection of civil liberties and protecting the national security, and in some cases, we guessed wrong. ”

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. ”

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. ”