Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 15 (p. 383)
Sovereign Maxims
Context: Where without any change in circumstances the things held to be just by law are seen not to correspond with the concept of justice in actual practice, such laws are not really just; but wherever the laws have ceased to be advantageous because of a change in circumstances, in that case the laws were for that time just when they were advantageous for the mutual dealings of the citizens, and subsequently ceased to be just when they were no longer advantageous. (38)
Source: From Freedom to Slavery (1996), Ch. 6 : The New King : Tyranny of the Corporate Core, p. 90
“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”
“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”
...что слишком сознавать — это болезнь, настоящая, полная болезнь.
Part 1, Chapter 2 (page 9)
Notes from Underground (1864)
On the basis of his legal decisions, in Ch. 9
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)
Combe v. Edwards (1878), L. R. 3 P. D. 142.
October 2004
On her boycott of the "Fiji Week" reconciliation ceremonies
1960s, Memorial Day speech (1963)
Context: The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law. Law has not failed — and is not failing. We as a nation have failed ourselves by not trusting the law and by not using the law to gain sooner the ends of justice which law alone serves. If the white over-estimates what he has done for the Negro without the law, the Negro may under-estimate what he is doing and can do for himself with the law.
