Quotes About Justice

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator

fair is a body pigment, that's all it is.

The qualities which caused him to be acclaimed the leader, he possessed when he was teaching school, and splitting rails, and reading law in a judge's musty office. From the beginning he was a man among men who always upheld the right, advocated justice for the oppressed, and a square deal for all.

I wanted to do something decent at last, and I wanted to be rewarded for my decency. p 284

Litigation A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

the idea of a supra-human Chief Justice, totally 'objective', may be a necessary political and social myth but it is an illusion for all that.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

I'm the goddamn Batman.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for.Amen.

Of course we're Criminals

You sold us out, Clark. You gave them the power that should have been ours. Just like your parents taught you. My parents taught me a different lesson... lying on this street... shaking in deep shock... dying for no reason at all. They showed me that the world only makes sense when you force it to.

I'll stare the bastard in the face as he screams to God, and I'll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I've done to him.

He's clearly a man with a mission, but it's not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal revenge ... He's much bigger than that; he's much more noble than that. He wants the world to be a better place, where a young Bruce Wayne would not be a victim ... In a way, he's out to make himself unnecessary. Batman is a hero who wishes he didn't have to exist.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

a truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every indvidual

When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.

One day they'll wake up and realize that we were right about everything all along.

As the US Justice Department explains in their report on the Ferguson PD, "the lower rate at which officers find contraband when searching African-Americans indicates either that officers' suspicion of criminal wrongdoing is less likely to be accurate when interacting with African-Americans or that officers are more likely to search African-Americans without any suspicion of criminal wrongdoing. Either explanation suggest bias, whether explicit or implicit" (US DOJ 2015, 65).

Most important is that in almost every year Hispanics are more likely than whites to experience these types of search and less likely than whites to be found with contraband