Favorite Quotations

• If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

  — Proverbs 24:10

• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

  — Mother Teresa

• The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

  — Pearl S. Buck

• You may trod on me in the very dirt. But still, like dirt, I'll rise.

  — Maya Angelou

• The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

  — George Bernard Shaw

• Without justice, courage is weak.

  — Benjamin Franklin

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  — Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everybody the same. 

  — Barbara Jordan

• I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

  — Thomas Jefferson

• Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?  Is there any equal hope in the world?

  — Abraham Lincoln

• I don’t know what kind of a future life I believe in, but I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

  — Eleanor Roosevelt

• The basic proposition of the worth and dignity of man is the strongest, the most creative force now present in the world.

  — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

  — James Madison

• There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

  — Thomas Jefferson