Quotes About Justice

She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit.

wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

DISARM ALL RAPISTS But what will we do With their legs?

veáis precisado a combatir con algún caballero, acordaos de lo que ahora os quiero decir y rogar: si vos lo vencéis, de modo que él ya no pueda defenderse de vos ni oponérseos y se vea obligado a ponerse en vuestra merced, pensad en tenerle merced y a pesar de ello no lo matéis.

Yes, she thought, revenge belongs to God. But justice? That will be mine.

We never did hang the wrong one but once or twice, and them fellers needed to be hung anyhow jes' on general principles. -A NAMELESS JUDGE IN THE OLD WEST

Truax held up a business card. Randolph "The Hammer" Tinker Attorney at Law "I nail justice in the face.

All of the movements that opened up the democratic space in America—the abolitionists, the suffragists, the labor movement, the communists, the socialists, the anarchists, and the civil rights movement—developed a critical mass and militancy that forced the centers of power to respond. The platitudes about justice, equality, and democracy are just that. Only when ruling elites become worried about survival do they react. Appealing to the better nature of the powerful is useless.

when human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied.

Some 8,000 nonviolent Occupy protesters were arrested across the nation. Not one banker or investor went to jail for causing the 2008 financial meltdown.

Those who resist refuse to kneel before the idols of mass culture and the power elites. They are not trying to get rich. They do not want to be part of the inner circle of the powerful. They accept that when you stand with the oppressed you are treated like the oppressed.

the portrayal of reality in the state-controlled press and popular entertainment is harmonious and pleasant. Justice, in the narratives approved for public consumption, is always served. Goodness always triumphs. Goals are always attained. This dichotomy, although not on the level of Stalin's Soviet Union or Hitler's Nazi Germany, is nevertheless present in American culture and getting worse. The gap between who we are and who we think we are is steadily expanding.

Some 8,000 nonviolent Occupy protesters were arrested across the nation. Not one banker or investor went to jail for causing the 2008 financial meltdown. The disparity of justice mirrored the disparity in incomes and the disparity in power.

They failed to grasp the central Socratic paradox: that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.

As it has done throughout American history, the state, under siege, will turn to extrajudicial groups of armed thugs to repress populist movements. Radical change in America is paid for with blood.

These vigilante groups have been tolerated, and often encouraged and utilized, by the ruling elite. And roaming the landscape along with these vigilante groups have been lone gunmen and mass killers who murder for money or power or to appease their own personal demons.

is death I defy, not my own death, but the vast enterprise of death. The dark, primeval lusts for power and personal wealth, the hypermasculine language of war and patriotism, used to justify the slaughter of the weak and the innocent and to mock justice. I do

The sentencing of Manning marked the day when the state formally declared that all who name and expose its crimes will become political prisoners or will be forced, like Snowden, to flee into exile.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.1 —Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

He was well aware, like Hugo, that good people were usually relentlessly persecuted, were rarely rewarded for virtue, and that those who held fast to truth and justice often found the way to their own cross.

When it shall be said in any country in the world, 'My poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of happiness—when these things can be said," wrote Paine, "then may that country boast of its constitution and its government.

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

Democrats and Republicans agree that police misconduct should be better tracked. But agreement appears to end there.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.