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“Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.”

Social Justice Enemy Truth Is Saint Traps Incarnation

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.”

Truth Justice Liberty Danger Expression Hero Truth Is Atmosphere Endeavor Hostile Pursued Freedom Of Expression

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath - to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.”

“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.”

“Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.”

Giving Doe Truth Justice Truth Is Speech Immortal Fades Perpetual Freedom Of Speech Unjust Separating

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.”

Reason Facts Care Justice Compassion Violence Promise Truth Is Deeds Deceit Cloaks Abnegation

Author:Steven Erikson

“Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.”

Truth Justice Truth Is Pure Truthfulness

Book:On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life: Part II of Thoughts Out of Season

Source: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life: Part II of Thoughts Out of Season

“But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.”

Men Believe May Truth Fighting Justice Power Theory Truth Is Tests Constitution Competition Rate Accepted Upset Freedom Of Speech

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement.”

Needs Doe Law Community Justice Truth Is Reviews Law Enforcement Enforcement Justice System

Author:Mario Cuomo

“We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.”

Lying Strong Grows Justice Violence Truth Is Majority Injustice Hollow Adversaries Mockery

Book:Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)