"Liberty" without justice is just a perpetuation of privilege for those who have it and who always have had it. Justice without equality is the same thing under a different false label.

Answering a complaint:

I don't make a lot of good jokes, one I did make a long time ago isn't topical anymore but I'll repeat it anyway.

You can't say William F. Buckley is a fascist because he won a case against someone who called him a fascist and Liberace won one against someone who said he was gay. 

There.  That's it.  

And it isn't topical because you can now say William F. Buckley was a fascist because he's dead and can't sue you.  But he was a fascist, obviously, as was his conservatism fascistic.  His lawsuit is interesting because a. he was defending his reputation against a true statement - how the guy couldn't defend it with Buckley's own words and, more tellingly, his support for fascism in other places,  I never figured out.  Maybe the judge was biased in his favor, which wouldn't surprise me at all.  

One of the important things I learned from paying attention to William F. Buckley was the hazardous nature of the concept of liberty.  Raised to venerate the word, as Americans and, indeed, anyone impinged on by modernity is, I heard Buckley use it to slam the concept of equality because of the damage to his liberty or that of his fellow fascists to do and say what they wanted to by the impedances placed on their malign desires and interests by demands of equality.   Patrick Henry famously demanded that kind of liberty when he said, "Give me liberty or give me death."  He did so as he held people in slavery, even as he made some pose of opposing it, he constantly increased the number of people held in slavery and, unlike some of  this fellow slave-holding Founders, though hardly many of them, he did not free them in his will, leaving them to his sons.  And there was his speculation in land stolen from the Indians.  As so many revolutionaries of the 1760s proved, they were in it mostly for themselves. 

Liberty like "free speech" is a secondary or lower value because its reality in real life can have either bad or good effects depending on what that liberty is used for.  The liberty enjoyed by a rich, white, male is often at the expense of justice for other people.  Allowed the full measure of the liberty given to such men by the original United States constitution allowed them to abolish the liberty, the rights, the equal justice under law that was and still is an empty slogan, a mockery of that slogan so hypocritically mounted over the entrance to the United States Supreme Court as its members have repeatedly, with little let up, administered unequal law for the benefit of their own class, their own gender, their own race, their fellow members of whoever is privileged in reality instead of in empty slogans.  The few and far between deviations from that are seldom for a pure purpose - often strategically planned to put more privilege in the hands of the already privileged - and often a mere aberration.   

No, without the overriding good of equality, liberty is not a reliable thing to elevate to a primary good.  People who have been able to rig it that way have always had their liberty to do evil to others all along.  Criminals who don't get caught are exercising their liberties,  unless they are arrested, they are said to be "at liberty".   The criminals who are enabling Donald Trump's crime spree often come from a university using that name, one which has been devoted to suppressing equal justice for a large range of unprivileged people, founded by a lying, hypocritical fascist demagogue and still in the control of his scion.  

"Liberty" without justice is just a perpetuation of privilege for those who have it and who always have had it.  Justice without equality is the same thing under a different false label.