Quotes About Justice

To clear up a murder you must do your own killing

The rules only applied to people who couldn't afford different rules.

Homicide investigations are about people

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

A person who isn't reminded several times a day about the implications of the color of her skin has time to consider the implications of other things.

Si los hombres del campo tuviéramos las tragaderas de los de las poblaciones, los presidios estarían deshabitados como islas.

Ve dünya, suçumdan kaçmak için yeterince büyük deÄŸildi... Dünyan?n ne eni ne de boyu kendi öz vicdan?m?n hayk?r??? kar??s?nda sessiz kalmaya yeterliydi...

If a child is kidnapped from hell and carried to heaven, should we condemn the kidnapper?

Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. —Abraham Lincoln

Someday…I will know that a new world has come into being, the world we dream could set us all free of tyranny, lies, injustice, prejudice, fear and sorrow. "When truth triumphs over all secrecy, we will all sail the silver ships, we will all know the joyful beauty of the Fjord of Tears in autumn, we will choose our families and loves and friends and no evil but only natural process will sunder us.

I love peace, but it is because I love justice and not because I am afraid of war

every Rebel guerilla and jayhawker, every man who ran to Canada to avoid the draft, every bounty-jumper, every deserter, every cowardly sneak that ran from danger and disgraced his flag,… every villain, of whatever name or crime, who loves power more than justice, slavery more than freedom, is a Democrat.

We do not set greed against greed or hatred against hatred," he thundered. "Our creed is one that bids us to be just to all, to feel sympathy for all, and to strive for an understanding of the needs of all. Our purpose is to smite down wrong.

I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.

The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

The first thing that the boy called Smoke told Nick Waters was: "Your biology book's in my locker. The combination is 5-3-5." And the second thing he said was: "I didn't do that fire, man. I'm innocent.

building prisons is our number one social program for young men

multiple-murderer Jack Henry Abbott's book In The Belly of the Beast.

We have a Department of Justice, but it would be more appropriate to have a department of violence prevention because that's what we need and that's what we care about. Justice is swell, but safety is survival.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.