Quotes About Justice

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

The people of Ethiopia are saying they've had enough of the killings and are tired of being exiled, imprisoned, beaten and we are done. We have had enough. We want peace now.

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered.

Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.