Quotes About Justice

L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

Historic inequality continues to cast a long shadow on more than just law enforcement. It affects everything from housing to employment to transportation.

Gandhi's insistence that personal change and the ability to bring about social change are linked. He warns that it is no use striving to implement principles such as nonviolence or justice in public affairs so long as one neglects them in one's personal life. And it is wise to begin in small and piecemeal ways.

The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil) in a light of justice and mercy.

People are more than the worst thing they have done in their lives.

It is only a matter of time before you will pay for your wrong-doings. To every action there is a reaction. When it comes back to you, the depth of your tragedy will be even greater than the wrongs you perpetuated. How do I know? It is the law of nature. It applies to every human being.

Sister Souljah

Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.

There is a verse in the Bible which reads: 'Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter'. How did we get here America? When did we turn our backs on the precepts and common sense on which this country was founded? As a country, we have collectively lost our way, and nothing short of a total about face can save us!

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it!

And even those who would like to believe in egalitarianism must ask themselves why we have to be equal only in poverty.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

In a 1931 speech, Butler recounted a story about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, how he had run over a child with his car, and said, as he moved on, "It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of the State.

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.

John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the bitch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy.

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.