Quotes About Justice

A stab wound less than three millimeters deep is legal and even encouraged. We cannot help you unless a crime has been committed. Fourteen millimeters or more.

resentful. It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the

It was a truism that people always hated those they had wronged, even if they were prepared to forgive anyone who wronged them.

the way women are starting to demand equal rights

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

I'm a murderer, Ted! I'm a murderer. A dog murderer! I'm just like Phil Spector minus the music career." "No, Chelsea, you need to get ahold of yourself. You are not a murderer! This was an accidental dog homicide!" "What

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

reason. She had a well-endowed bosom. Marshal

when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. It has not always been so, he said. My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.

Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father.

The sun will shine on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them.

I do not see that it is necessary for any people to prove to another that they build cathedrals or pyramids before they can be entitled to peace and safety.

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest - without asking to be paid.

But let the slave who sees another cast into a shallow grave know that he will be buried in the same way when his day comes.

The poor of the world may be guilty of this and that particular fault or foolishness, but if we are fair we will admit that nothing they have done or left undone quite explains all the odds we see stacked up against them. We are sometimes tempted to look upon the poor as so many ne'er-do-wells we can simply ignore. But they will return to haunt our peace, because they are greater than their badge of suffering, because they are human.

We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

It is appropriate that we celebrate Martin Luther King, a man who struggled so valiantly to restore humanity to the oppressed and the oppressor.

If we put ourselves between the god and his victim we may receive blows intended for the offender. When a man blasphemes, what do we do? Do we go and stop his mouth? No. We put our fingers into our ears to stop us hearing. That is a wise action.

The boy who persists in asking what happened to his father before he has enough strength to avenge him is asking for his father's fate...

For whom is it well, for whom is it well. There is no one for whom it is well.

For whom is it well, for whom is it well? For no one for whom it is well.

God has never sat around biting his nails, wondering what Hitler and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein were going to do.