Ann Maxwell Quotes

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

And Justice for Some

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Injustice can never be stood for.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.

You can't just be letting certain people get away with certain things and not others.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.