Roger Nash Baldwin Quotes

I will stand strong to defend people even if I don't agree with them.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

No matter who or what you support, I believe in supporting fairness first.

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

Do not allow your hatred of a people to incite you not to act equitably.

Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.

If somebody does something wrong to someone around me, I can be firm. But that's always to protect someone to whom wrong is being done to.

You approach the cases, not thinking that you have some obligation to win but that you actually have to evaluate the facts and make sure that you're doing the right thing.

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.

Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.

Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters

When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just