The administration of justice was swift and unvexed by nuance.
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.
You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice.
But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.
In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.
Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.
Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.
It is just a matter of simple justice…. It was the right thing to do.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.