The Better Chancery Practice Blog

“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.” —  Edmund Burke

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” — Frederick Douglass

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.”  —  Martin Niemöller

Tagged: Edmund Burke, Frederick Douglass, Martin Niemoller