"In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."
U.S. Constitution
7th Amendment
"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed."Proverbs 31:8
"Laws are not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners"I Timothy 1:9
"When one undertakes to administer justice, it must be with an even hand, and by rule; what is done for one must be done for everyone in equal degree."Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father and 3rd POTUS
"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."Albert Einstein
German-born American Physicist
"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father and 3rd POTUS
"Without equal access to the law, the system not only robs the poor of their only protection, but it places it in the hands of their oppressors the most powerful and ruthless weapon ever created."Reginald Heber Smith
Justice and the Poor, 1919
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."Mahatma Gandhi
"It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE. "Learned Hand
1951
"Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation."Alexander Hamilton
Founding Father
"Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status."Lewis Powell, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"Law is a pledge that the citizens of a state will do justice to one another."
Lycophron
3rd Century Scholar
"By a declaration of rights I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, trial by juries in all cases..."Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father and 3rd POTUS
"To withhold the equal protection of the laws, is to undermine the entire structure and threaten it with collapse.... It is for such reasons that freedom and equality of justice are essential to a democracy and that denial of justice is the short cut to anarchy."Reginald Heber Smith
Justice and the Poor, 1919
"In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature."James Madison
Founding Father and 4th POTUS
"This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power."Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Philosopher & Lawyer