Justice & Rights Sayings

232 sayings found from 232 authors

Man is not free if he must obey a law imposed on him against his will.

— Averroes (Ibn Rushd) c. 1180 CE
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil.

— Maimonides c. 1180 CE
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

— Blaise Pascal 1660
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.

— Bob Marley 1980
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Justice is a joke in this country, and it's all in the hands of the white man.

— Billie Holiday 1956
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I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean, really, no fear!

— Nina Simone 1968
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I'm a very respectful person. I'm a very polite person. I'm a very courteous person.

— Michael Jackson 2003
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The media is the modern court where reputations are made and unmade.

— Edward Said 1999
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern society, just a barbaric one.

— Ai Weiwei 2011
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I am a law unto myself.

— Richard Wagner Various
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

— Igor Stravinsky 1942
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I do not wish to be judged by what others have done, but by what I myself do.

— Caravaggio Uncertain, early 17th century
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The gentleman esteems those qualities in himself that others cannot equal, but he does not expect others to equal those qualities in him.

— Xunzi approx. 300 BCE
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Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

— Dante Alighieri 1313
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I'm a Muslim and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm a black man in America. I want justice and equality. I want what's rightfully mine.

— Muhammad Ali 1960s
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Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

— Bruce Lee 1960s-1970s
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I know that I am a black man, and I know that I am an American, and I know that I have the same rights as any other American.

— Jackie Robinson 1949
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

— Harriet Tubman c. 1849-1850
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I did not run away from the South, I ran away from slavery.

— Frederick Douglass Unknown
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