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Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

— Buddha

Love is stronger than justice.

— Sting

Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

— Eric Schneiderman

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

— Tsai Ing-wen

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

— Denis Diderot

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

— Bono

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

— William Godwin

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

— Plato

✗Opposing Perspectives

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

— A. Philip Randolph

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

— Jose Rizal