African Spir on Justice

"The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself."

"We would not permanently change by violence a state of affairs; we can repress resistances for a certain time , but not attain thus a lasting result"

"It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may build justice."

"The duty of the State is double; it must strive to perfect its member, by promoting their intellectual and moral progress, et try to keep the right and the justice in their mutual relationships."

"The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others."

"Injustice having always hold sway on earth, there are some who imagine that the existing social order may subsist for ever. Whether this order could last until now, this was mainly due to the conviction of people, that it was of divine institution. But this belief is vanishing , and with it the only moral support of the actual order will collapse, leaving only brutal forces opposed to each others clashing, with no peaceful way out"

"As long as men, in their aberration , will go out of their way in every manners to harm and torment each others, it is an urgent duty, for those who are conscious of the absurdity of such a state of affairs, to strive to put them in the picture about their wildness"

"Deep down, everything boils down to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial to those very same that pursue them?"

"What determinate events is, beside national, dynastic and particular egoism, the instinct of domination and conquest, in one word, forceBold text. Judging by the history of humanity, harms that men have had to suffer, harms that men have to suffer by their nature are minute in comparison to these they inflict to each others. The most fantastic imagination might not fabricate some cruelties, injustices and perfidies that men have not exceeded in practice."

"The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same unity. Deep down, they are also related among them; that they consider themselves as strangers, this just depends on the feeling that dictate their relationships. In their country, two fellow coutrymen whose paths berely cross with inferrence, would effusively rush themselves up into each other arms if they would happen to meet in a desert, among Cannibles."