Quotes About Justice

As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc.

We believe in a government that trusts people and doesn't limit where you finish because of where you started.

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Justice is truth in action.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

When truth is on your side, you don't need support.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

I always say this: 'In life, truth is on your side.'

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to be more just and generous. The truth is, we've already been through that, and there is nothing left to do. We're out of 'affirmative actions' of all kinds.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.

I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.