Quotes About Justice

I want you to bear something in mind through all this dreadful time. I know that you must fight—that you must destroy ... but it is not a work of hate.

Then, as he is criminal he is selfish.

Judge Moneybag will settle this case, I think!

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

When a government becomes unjust, honor is often found among the lawless.

Rotten apples stay spoiled, Nedwin said. Copernum and his allies will hang themselves with future crimes.

The bear would have to be stopped," Grandma agreed. "Stan is just making the distinction that you wouldn't blame the bear the same way you would blame a responsible person.

Would you forgive a killer for not knowing how a gun functioned? How many would have to die before you stopped pardoning his ignorance?

they come to be? Why don't they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been

Sprawling over 435 acres, San Quentin was a contained city of the dammed, complete with its own zip code. According to anyone who'd been there, that was Hell, California 94964.

He kept imagining women like his mother creeping across the border with the hope of being able to make enough to feed themselves and their families, and being murdered by some vigilante who felt he had the right to take the law into his own hands. It was so easy to feel self-righteous and superior when you had a comfortable home, a safe place to live and a full stomach.

He is a good man, and I don't like Thomas More and his band of heretic hunters. A man should have a right to believe what a man wants to believe. (p. 337)

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

Gaze into the fist of Dredd!

stay Christian while rejecting supremacy and embracing solidarity instead.

He creates a new kind of hero: not warriors, corporate executives, or politicians, but brave and determined activists for preemptive peace, willing to suffer with Him in the prophetic tradition of justice.

Surely many courageous Christians spoke out against the savagery of their so-called civilized fellow Christians? And surely many compassionate Christians spoke out for the humanity of the so-called savages? Sadly, very, very few actually did, notable among them a Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas. His

Each white person gets to be considered on their own terms, and every other group must answer as a whole for the crimes of the one or the few."1

Roman throats like the Zealots. Instead, if a Roman soldier backhands you with a blow

Protestants had a special appetite for witch trials; over 90 percent of the trials took place in Protestant lands.

do we Christians want to continue to enfranchise scoundrels who hold the right beliefs but perpetuate harm?

The wise preacher of Ecclesiastes might say, "There is a time for everything—a time to be laid-back and a time to be outraged; a time to be tolerant and a time to stand up and say, 'I'm not going to take this anymore.'" The challenge for all fighters, of course, is to be sure they find out what is now truly worth fighting against, and then to be sure they have something that is truly worth fighting for.

These emerging Christian leaders realize that if their message isn't good news for the poor, a message of liberation for the oppressed, it isn't the same message Jesus proclaimed.

Jess had pulled the trigger tonight. No cop did that without going through hell. It didn't matter who was on the other end of the bullet.