| Famous
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| Justice Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus aut differemus, rectum aut justitian. [To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.] Magna Carta, England, 1215. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Francis Bellamy, The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, 1892. (The phrase "under God" was added by a resolution of Congress, approved by President Eisenhower June 14, 1954.) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter From Birmingham Jail, 1963. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., speech at the end of the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, march for voting rights, 1965. |
Justice If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. Babylonian king Hammurabi, Code of Hammurabi, c. 1750 B.C. Summum ius summa iniuria [Extreme justice is extreme injustice.] Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman leader, De Officiis [On Moral Duties], 44 B.C. Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. [Let justice be done, though the world perish.] Emperor Ferdinand I (1503 - 1564), motto . |
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