Quotes About Justice

Mesquita functioned as Magellan's agent of agony, deciding who was guilty of treason and who would suffer the consequences. No wonder the men hated him.

sentenced the other accused—in all, forty men—to death.

then with one powerful blow, he severed Quesada's head from his neck.

Magellan ordered a detail to draw and quarter Quesada's body.

The Captain General subjected the two conspirators to a fresh court-martial.

declare and ordain as free and quit of every obligation of captivity, subjection, and slavery, my captured slave Enrique, mulatto, native of the city of Malacca, of the age of twenty-six years more or less

Thomas Appletree, who had fired the shot, was condemned to death by hanging

executioner placed the noose around the condemned man's neck, Elizabeth intervened to spare him.

The Constitution is well worth fighting for.

A healthy child protests when they are mistreated.

Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

If jurors were looking for a way to come back finding for the UKA, Mays had given it to them. Senator Michael Figures made the plaintiff's final arguments. He had been there on Herndon Street the morning of the lynching, and he had seen Donald's body hanging from a tree. He had been

She told Figures that yes, the civil lawsuit against the Klan could be filed in her name. But she was still suspicious. She had learned long ago that the bigger a promise the less likely it would ever happen, and in her expertise that was doubly true when white men made the promise.

They will have to arrest me before they integrate the University of Alabama," the governor told columnist Drew Pearson.

While Dees was growing up, he had seen that black lives didn't matter, and until they did, there could be no true justice.

Two white teenagers, one of them an Eagle Scout, had been looking forward to being part of the motorcade. Upset at the cancellation, they drove into black neighborhoods on a motorcycle carrying a Confederate flag. When they came upon two black boys on bicycles, one of the white youths fired his pistol at thirteen-year-old Virgil Ware and killed him.

The National Convention declares that slavery is abolished throughout the territory of the Republic; in consequence, all men, without distinction of color, will enjoy the rights of French citizens."37

Revenge is a good motivator, but it always disappoints in the end.

Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny was

You can't just do what you want, she thought. Why should Mia get to, when no one else did?

Fair doesn't always mean right.