James Russell Lowell Quotes

[Objecting to administration policies:] Truth is on the scaffold, wrong is on the throne.

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.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Injustice can never be stood for.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

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.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'