Quotes About Justice

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

I have the documents. Documents, proof, evidence, photograph, signature. One day you raise your right hand and you are American. They give you an American Pass port. The United States of America. Somewhere someone has taken my identity and replaced it with their photograph. The other one. Their signature their seals. Their own image. And you learn the executive branch the legislative branch and the third. Justice. Judicial branch. It makes the difference The rest is past.

May we find ways to live more simply in order to have more time and energy to change the system of injustice that exists in the world.

It is my prayer that nations will no longer send their young people to fight each other, not even in the name of peace. I do not accept the concept of war for peace, nor of a 'just war,' in the same way that I cannot accept the concepts of 'just slavery,,' 'just hatred, or 'just racism.

No act of killing can be justified.

The truth is the truth, whether or not it is accepted by the majority. Therefore, I tell you children, it takes great courage to stand up for and protect what is right.

I want to do a film like 'Jolly LLB' or something in that space.

Nothing can bring my Jordan back but I have learned to channel my grief into action to honor my son.

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

Were I confirmed as a judge, I would decide cases according to the rule of law beginning to end.

The Almighty is the judge.

I'm not a judge.

Every judge should have real-time access to the criminal background and history of defendants who appear in their courtrooms - so that sentencing and bail decisions can be made with that information.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

One of the great things about America is we should not judge until we know the facts.