INJUSTICE

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1. It appears to be taken for granted that it is a principle of American jurisprudence that men who are victims of a popular outcry are not entitled to a fair trial.—JOHN PETER ALTGELD
   

2. A great outrage on the spirit of Justice breaks down all barriers of race and nationality.—HALL CAINE, The Eternal City
   

3. When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.—MRS. THOMAS CARLYLE, Journal
   

4. National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.—GLADSTONE
   

5. The injustice to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.—JUNIUS
   

6. Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.—PLATO, The Republic
   

7. Much law, but little justice.—Proverb
   

8. If it had not been for [the Sacco and Vanzetti case] I might have live out my life, talking on street corners to scorning men. I might have die, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life can we do such a work for tolerance, for joostice, for man's onderstanding of man, as now we do by an accident. Our words—our lives—our pains—nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fishpeddler­all! The last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph!—BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI, Letter to his son, April 9, 1927