Quotes About Justice

Mais ce pays met en application l'idée que tous les hommes naissent égaux dans une institution humaine qui fait du pauvre l'égal d'un Rockefeller, du crétin l'égal d'un Einstein, et de l'ignorant l'égal de n'importe quel directeur de lycée. Cette institution, messieurs les jurés, c'est le tribunal.

I doubt if we'd ever get a complete case tried—the ladies'd be interrupting to ask questions.

you saw something come between them and reason. You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail. When that crew went away, they didn't go as reasonable men, they went because we were there. There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins.

He's good and dead. He won't hurt these children again.

I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn't dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don't tell me judges don't try to prejudice juries.

It might be because he knows in his heart that very few people in Maycomb really believed his and Mayella's yarns. He thought he'd be a hero, but all he got for his pain was… was, okay, we'll convict this Negro but get back to your dump.

Tribunalul reprezinta tinutul... in aceeasi masura ca si ceaiurile misionarilor.

The law says 'reasonable doubt,' but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of a doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.

I need a watch man, to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference. I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty-six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is

Ganaremos el juicio, Atticus? -No, cariño -Entonces, ¿cómo...? -Simplemente, el que hayamos perdido cien años antes de empezar no es motivo para que no intentemos vencer.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ´em, but remember it´s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

But Cal, Jem protested, you don't look even near as old as Atticus. Colored folks don't show their ages so fast, she said.

ÇoÄŸunluÄŸa baÄŸl? olmayan tek ÅŸey insan?n vicdan?d?r.

It's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Mockingbirds do nothing but bring pleasure with their singing and thus to kill them is unjustifiable.

those children to work while Tom's in jail.

You can shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit them. But remember, it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Nu, dom'le, mi-era team? s? nu ajung la judecat?, cum am ?i ajuns. - ?i-era team? s? nu fii arestat, ?i-era team? c? vei da socoteal? de ce-ai f?cut? - Nu, dom'le, mi-era team? c? o s? dau socoteal? de ceea ce n-am f?cut.

All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbors was, that if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white.

Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up peoples gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

the one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

Never ask a witness a question when you don't already know the answer

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ~ Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird)