This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.
Chance | Cruelty | God | Humanity | Justice | Mercy | Merit | Motives | Service | Will | Cruelty | Value | Victim |
Chief Joseph, born Hinmuuttu-yalatlat
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.
Chief Joseph, born Hinmuuttu-yalatlat
Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it...Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike - brothers of one father and one mother, with only the sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.
Chance | Earth | Father | Government | Law | Man | Men | Mother | People | Rights | Spirit | Will | Government |
Chief Joseph, born Hinmuuttu-yalatlat
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.
Chance | Earth | Law | Liberty | Man | Men | Mother | Peace | People | Rights | Spirit | Wants |
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have both died the victims of murder assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by legalized murder.
Death | Evil | Husband | Justice | Law | Life | Life | Morality | Mother | Murder | Retaliation | Murder |
Cheating thrives where unfairness reigns, along with economic anxiety. It thrives where government is the weak captive of wealthy interests and lacks the will to do justice impartially. It thrives where money and success are king, and winners are fawned over whatever their daily abuses of power.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Government | Justice | Money | Power | Success | Unfairness | Will | Government |
Dagobert Runes, fully Dabovert David Runes
Morality is the observance of the rights of others.
Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans in regard to property.
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men each to govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.
Consideration | Government | Men | Organization | Rights | Government | Govern |
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The beginning and the greatest good is prudence. Wherefore prudence is a more precious thing even than philosophy; for from prudence are spring all the other virtues, and it teaches us that it is not possible to live pleasantly without living prudently and honorably and justly, nor, again, to live a life of prudence, honor and justice without living pleasantly. For the virtues are by nature bound up with the pleasant life, and the pleasant life is inseparable from them.
Beginning | Good | Honor | Justice | Life | Life | Nature | Philosophy | Prudence | Prudence |
Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
Democracy | Government | Men | Practice | Respect | Rights | Self | Respect |
Georg Hegel, fully Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
An integral part of justice is the confidence which citizens have in it, and it is this which requires that proceedings shall be public.
Confidence | Justice | Public |