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Quotes About Justice

You stupid, man. Real stupid. Ain't no law for no colored man except the one sends him to the chair," said Guitar.
~ Toni Morrison
wrong is because it is the taking of a life. When you take someone's life, you also take away their right to liberty and their pursuit of happiness. If you take someone's life, you also take their dream, their future, their family, their career, and their children away from them. All other rights are lost when you take away the right to life.
~ Tony Evans
FinallyA brothers and sisters, whatever is true,a whatever is honorable,b whatever is just,c whatever is pure,d whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable ?— ?if there is any moral excellencee and if there is anything praiseworthy ?— ?dwell on these things.
~ Tony Evans
Here's an idea you can use in your witnessing as people throw out their objections to believing in God. Many will say, 'God isn't fair, and I'm glad. If He were fair, you and I wouldn't be here today. We'd be in hell. What we really need is not God's fairness, but His mercy.
~ Tony Evans
La oración persistente, basada en la ley de Dios, constituye un asunto del reino, y Dios se preocupa por su justa reputación.
~ Tony Evans
Exodus 2:11–15).
~ Tony Evans
As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question. Knowing God's viewpoint on important issues—whether it is immigration, taxation, racial disparity, abortion, social justice, or even simply partisan politics—should be one of your primary concerns as you head into any voting season.
~ Tony Evans
The social question is back on the agenda.
~ Tony Judt
If 1989 was about re-discovering liberty, what limits are we now willing to place upon it? Even in the most 'freedom-loving' societies, freedom comes with constraints. But if we accept some limitations—and we always do—why not others? Why
~ Tony Judt
As the progressive Abbé Boulier explained to François Fejtö, when trying to prevent him from writing about the Rajk trial: drawing attention to Communist sins is 'to play the imperialists' game'.11
~ Tony Judt
otherwise—to deny distinctions of class or wealth or influence—is just a way to promote one set of interests above another.
~ Tony Judt
Let a hard and just sentence be given and carried out, as the honour of the nation demands and its greatest traitor deserves'. Resolution of Czechoslovak resistance organizations, demanding severe punishment for Father Józef Tiso, November 1946
~ Tony Judt
But each in its own way was affected by the growing intolerance of immoderate inequality, initiating public provision to compensate for private inadequacy.
~ Tony Judt
The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true for rich and poor countries alike.
~ Tony Judt
What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.
~ Tony Judt
The legacy of unregulated wealth creation is bitter indeed.
~ Tony Judt
Socialism for social democrats, especially in Scandinavia, was a distributive concept. It was about making sure that wealth and assets were not disproportionately gathered into the hands of a privileged few. And this, as we have seen, was in essence a moral matter:
~ Tony Judt
The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true for rich and poor countries alike. What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.
~ Tony Judt
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. " — Chief Joseph, 1879
~ Kent Nerburn
This is why cops shoot people in the back, I thought. They can't keep up. Then
~ Kent Walker
People decide how to live their own lives! A scum bastard doesn't have the right to chain anyone down!" -Sven to Torneo
~ Kentaro Yabuki
That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you
~ Keri Arthur
She dropped on his chest with both knees and vengefully banged his head on the floor, once to knock him out and twice because it made her feel better.
~ Kerry Greenwood
It's always good business practice to eliminate any potential avengers.
~ Kerry Greenwood