Quotes About Justice

The championship would be their sole acquaintance with justice at Nickel.

You can change the law, but you can't change people and how they treat each other.

Take it out on each other if you cannot take it out on the ones who deserve

Perhaps if he'd spent more time in the crucible of the county jail, Elwood would have known that it is best not to interfere in other people's violence, no matter the underlying facts of the incident.

Reverend King's equation. Throw us in jail and we will still love you…But be assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and your conscience that we will win you in the process and our victory will be a double victory. No, he could not make that leap to love.

If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest.

She threw him a bone about the movement: 'Lyndon Johnson's carrying on President Kennedy's civil rights bill. And if that good old boy is doing right, you know things is changing. Be a whole different thing when you come home, Elwood.

The white men who wrote it didn't understand it either, if all men did not truly mean all men.

White men squabbled before judges over claims to this or that tract hundreds of miles away that had been carved up on a map. Slaves fought with equal fervor over their tiny parcels at their feet.

They strung up the guilty and, in the interest of prevention, a robust percentage of the innocent.

Puedes cambiar la ley, pero no puedes cambiar a la gente ni la manera en la que se tratan unos a otros

But if people received their just portion of misfortune, what had she done to bring her troubles on herself?

another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.

The negro's story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.

You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other. Nickel was

I'm all for your people. You might not think so, but I am. I'm all for colored progress, but gradual. You can't do everything overnight--that would be chaos.

Dibs was dibs, we didn't have to call it. Ever since we were born, we'd lived according to the rough frontier justice of even Stephen, and even Stephen had a perfect memory.

Be kind to everybody. Make art. Fight the power.

for a long time they were the same thing to me, justice and revenge.

He was there, he said, to raise just a single hat, but eventually that hat would raise the heavens. He would go forth as a slave no more.

There'll be lawyers in heaven before you see somethin' so good again.

He was not interested in absolving the attackers, but he had to admit if he had been born under the same circumstances he would undoubtedly have become a fighter himself, maybe even the same sort of man who had murdered his son.

Mas não é disto que se trata! Não é por vossa causa, povo, que nos, abolimos a pena de morte, mas por nossa causa, deputados, que podemos ser ministros; nós não queremos que a máquina da guilhotina morda as altas classes. Por isso quebramo-la. Tanto melhor se isto serve para toda a gente, mas só em nos pensamos.

In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power.