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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.