Definition of justice in English:

noun1

Just behavior or treatment:

a concern for justice, peace, and genuine respect for people1.1

The quality of being fair and reasonable:

the justice of his case1.2

The administration of the law or authority in maintaining this:

a tragic miscarriage of justice

Origin

Late Old English iustise 'administration of the law', via Old French from Latin justitia,

from justus Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin justus, from jus 'law, right'.

Human progress is neither automatic nor

inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.Malcolm X

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.Aristotle

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.Aristotle

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Winston Churchill

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights,

equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.Maya Angelou

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.Pope John Paul II

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.D. H. Lawrence

The more laws, the less justice.Marcus Tullius Cicero

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.Sonia Sotomayor

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.Francis BaconIt is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?Khalil Gibran