"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."

Justice, Humanity, Observation, Compassion

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"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."

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"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Justice, Responsibility, Prison, Truth

"You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

Justice, Injustice, World, Brother, Anger

"Delay in justice is injustice."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

Justice, Delay, Injustice

"As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

Justice, Universe, Life, Harmony, Understanding

"ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Justice, Law, Fairness, Debate

"Won't reparations divide us? Not any more than we are already divided. The wealth gap merely puts a number on something we feel but cannot say - that American propserity was ill-gotten and selective in its distribution. What is needed is an airing of family secrets, a settling with old ghosts. What is needed is a healing of the American psyche and the banishment of white guilt."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, American Writer

Justice, History, Healing, Racism

"The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole."

Corrine Brown, American Politician

Justice, Company, Crime, Harm, Punishment

"Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Justice, Cost, Law, America

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Justice, Tyranny, Power, Morality, Oppression

"Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Justice, Equality, Qualifications, Ground, Fairness

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"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."

Freedom

"The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle."

Freedom

"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."

Freedom

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."

Challenge

"Forget the past."

Past

"Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country."

Education

"A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."

Leadership

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"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."

"You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother."

"Delay in justice is injustice."

"As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it."

"The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole."

"Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror."

"Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications."

Explore more quotes by Nelson Mandela

"The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle."

"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."

"Where you stand depends on where you sit."

"It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity."

"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."

"Forget the past."

"Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country."

"A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."