Quotes About Justice

I am convinced that, because the criminal justice system is run by humans, it is naturally subject to human error. There is no rational basis to believe that this same type of human error will not infect capital murder trials.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.

I think there needs to be a range of justices, of all types. You can't just pick one type.

During the season, there are all types of games - ones where you deserve more than you get and ones where you get more than you deserve.

My hypothesis is not so much that the court is the natural expression of popular justice, but rather that its historical function is to ensnare it, to control it and strangle it, by re-inscribing it within institutions which are typical of a state apparatus.

I'm your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I've lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me.

Over the years, we have been conditioned that certain communities need to be looked upon in a certain typical way. So I think we need to question the logic behind it. 'Mulk' is going to question that logic - and where did it start and why did it start and the need to change it immediately.

'Strong Island' is not your typical true-crime film. It's not actually about the uncovering of evidence or following leads that hadn't been seen before or any of that stuff.

The typical prisoner has numerous brushes with the law before finally being sent behind bars. Each year thousands of cautions are issued to people who will come back to crime again.

Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South.

We must heed the call of action and, with courageous steps and humble hearts, work against tyranny.

We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

I have always admired the courage of ordinary individuals to step up and speak out against injustice and tyranny.

Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.