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Song · Protest music · Folk music

For the loser now will be later to win, For the times they are a-changin'.

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) · 1964

★ 9.2

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

What I say is that "just" or "right" means nothing but what is to the interest of the stronger party.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.1

Political charter · Political literature

To no man will we sell, or deny, or delay, right or justice.

Magna Carta

1215

★ 7.3

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1968

★ 7.1

Essay · Political literature

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

Federalist 51 · 1788

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

Justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

1851

★ 7.0

Historical literature

You know as well as we do that right, as the word goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

History of the Peloponnesian War · 404 BC

★ 7.0

Film · Western (film) · Western

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.

Unforgiven · 1992

★ 6.4

Scripture · Religious literature

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

Isaiah 40:4-5

681 BC

★ 6.2

Speech · Political speech

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

1860

★ 5.5

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Benjamin Cardozo

1923

★ 5.3

There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court.

Clarence Darrow

1936

★ 5.3

Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literature

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Plato, Crito · 399 BC

★ 4.9

Political literature · Feminist literature

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 4.7

Justice is love on legs, spilling over into the public sphere.

2009

★ 4.6

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

A Theory of Justice · 1971

★ 4.4

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Open letter · Letter · Political literature

There are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail · 1963

★ 3.9

Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.

533

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature—opposition to it, is [in?] his love of justice.

Abraham Lincoln

1854

★ 3.8

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