Algernon Sidney Quotes

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.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

I cannot sit by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Too many nations enslaved the prisoners they took in war. But to go to nations with whom there is no war, who have no way provoked, without farther design of conquest, purely to catch inoffensive people, like wild beasts, for slaves, is an height of outrage against Humanity and Justice, that seems left by Heathen nations to be practiced by pretended Christians. How shameful are all attempts to color and excuse it!

The Spaniards have served us with rapine and death. They have violated the sacred rights of human beings, violated capitulations and the most solemn treaties; committed, in fact, every crime. They have reduced the Republic of Venezuela to the most frightful desolation. Thus, then, justice demands vengeance and necessity obliges us to take it

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however flimsy, and put to death with horrible tortures. No government pretending to be civilized can go on condoning such atrocities. Either it must make every possible effort to put them down or it must suffer the scorn and contempt of Christendom.

All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.