Time Toast Presentation

  • 620 BCE

    Justinian Code

    Creates an organized legal system that shaped European concepts of fairness and justice.
  • Statue of Dike
    400 BCE

    Statue of Dike

    Represents divine justice and the belief that moral balance guides human behavior.
  • The Apology - Plato
    399 BCE

    The Apology - Plato

    Socrates defends truth over popularity, showing moral justice versus political judgment.
  • Edict of Ashoka
    250 BCE

    Edict of Ashoka

    Stone pillar with Ashoka’s carved moral laws
  • The 12 Tables of Rome
    200 BCE

    The 12 Tables of Rome

    Stone tables engraved with roman legal codes
  • Hagia Sophia
    537

    Hagia Sophia

    Interior dome with mosaics that symbolizes spiritual justice
  • Magna Carta
    1215

    Magna Carta

    A landmark document limiting absolute power and guaranteeing basic legal rights.
  • Hamlet: by William Shakespeare

    Hamlet: by William Shakespeare

    This explores revenge can ever be true justice or if it destroys everyone involved.
  • Leviathan: by Thomas Hobbes

    Leviathan: by Thomas Hobbes

    Defines justice as a social contract where people trade freedoms for protection.
  • Beethoven’s “Eroica”

    Beethoven’s “Eroica”

    A symbol of justice and heroism
  • The Slave Ship: by JMW Turner

    The Slave Ship: by JMW Turner

    Injustice and human cruelty
  • Uncle Toms Cabin: by Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Uncle Toms Cabin: by Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Exposed the injustice of slavery and inspired widespread abolitionist movements.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    A key moment of peaceful protest that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail: by MLK

    Letter from Birmingham Jail: by MLK

    Defends the moral duty to resist unjust laws using peaceful methods.
  • Schindler List

    Schindler List

    A film showing a man’s fight to bring justice and humanity during the Holocaust.