Bryant H. McGill Quotes

What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

The pursuit of justice is all I have ever known.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Justice is truth in action.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

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.

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

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Justice is the truth in action.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Justice is not a prize tendered to the good-natured, nor is it to be withheld from the ill-bred.