Quotes About Justice

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right

esas consistentes mayorías desprovistas que pueden uniformarse en la palabra "pueblo", un concepto vacío pero de extraordinarias resonancias emotivas, justicieras, solidarias.

Las leyes son tan malas, tienen tantos agujeros, que el espacio de arbitraje de la Suprema Corte se multiplica al infinito.

Los gobiernos estatales son los responsables, por ejemplo, de que en México sólo se castiguen en promedio cinco de cada 100 homicidios dolosos, pues la persecución de los homicidios no es una facultad federal, sino local.

Plantearse el problema del crimen organizado y de su arraigo en Tierra Caliente como un asunto de buenos contra malos fue uno de los errores del gobierno de Felipe Calderón. Vistos desde afuera, sin un conocimiento de la zona y de su historia, todos los habitantes de la región podían entrar en la definición de malos.

México siempre construyó en su cúpula, de distintos modos, la similar versión de un hombre fuerte, encarnación institucional o espuria del poder absoluto, dispensador de bienes y males: padre, árbitro, verdugo

Ninguna de esas cosas se conseguirá sin la gran asignatura pendiente de la modernización mexicana que es el gobierno de la ley, la aplicación de la ley, la igualdad ante la ley, la vigencia de la ley.

Un gobierno dispuesto a aplicar estrictamente las leyes, tendría que perseguir a una cantidad imposible de mexicanos. Tendría casi que declararle la guerra a su sociedad.

Pero ¿quién decide si las leyes son justas? Nadie, cada quien. Millones de mexicanos se erigen todos los días en jueces de cuáles leyes deben o no obedecer.

Crear un país de leyes significa arrancar esa costumbre de un sector todavía amplio de la sociedad mexicana.

a man killed committing a felony--and bombing and arson ought to qualify for that--is simply bought and paid for; his blood is on nobody's head but his own.

Puedes estar seguro, Alfredo, que si hay una cosa en nuestra época que se revela como un decreto de Dios, es que las masas han de levantarse y ocupar el puesto superior las clases inferiores.

The words God is my defense and deliverance held in the silence until they become part of your very being, will deliver you out of the hands and the arguments of the keenest lawyer in the world.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it.

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts.

They reached Albuquerque, Dyson seeing for the first time the deceptively clear air and the red desert beneath still snowy peaks. Feynman bore into town at 70 miles per hour and was immediately arrested for a rapid sequence of traffic violations. The justice of the peace announced that the fine he handed down was a personal record.

It never ceased to amaze me how white scholars could quibble, making simple things more complicated than they really were. What is more central in the Christian Bible than the exodus and Jesus stories and the prophetic call for justice for the poor?

The oppressed…have a higher moral right to challenge their oppressors than these have to maintain their rule by force."6