Just Treatment Quotes

I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.

If we are Russian citizens, treat us as Russian citizens. We want equality and justice.

They [the American Indians] have claims on the magnanimity and, I may add, on the justice of this nation which we must all fill. We should become their real benefactors; we should perform the office of their Great Father, the endearing title which they emphatically give to the Chief Magistrate of our Union.

Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

One law for the native and the stranger among you.

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.