Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to es….
Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the f….
The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change..
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the hu….
We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice..
... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes dem….
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual..
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself..
Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a lit….
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice..
You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-natu….
'He means well' is useless unless he does well..
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administ….
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 aga….
It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's chi….
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children ….
This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure d….
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benev….
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty..
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality..
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest free….