Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Whenever the white man treats an Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars.

It is useless to attempt to disguise the hostility that exists on the part of a great many here toward northern men…. There is now a test of what shall be the status of northern men–whether they can live here without being in constant dread or not; whether they can be protected in life and property, and have justice in the courts.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

There could never really be justice on stolen land.

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

Justice is the right of the weakest.

I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

Canada has some very, very dark histories, from internments to turning away the St. Louis and the Komagata Maru, but none is darker than our abject failure to respect rights, the spirit and intent of the original treaties with First Nations, Métis Nation, and Inuit peoples. We have to transform that relationship.