Quotes About Justice

If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot.

It made me a bit sad, truth be to tell it, to watch them hundreds of white folks crying for the Negro, for there weren't hardly ever any Negroes present at most of them gatherings, and them that was there was doodied up and quiet as a mouse. It seemed to me the whole business of the Negro's life out there weren't no different than it was out west, to my mind. It was like a big, long lynching. Everybody got to make a speech about the Negro but the Negro.

I'm Osawatomie John Brown of Kansas," he declared. He liked to use his full Indian name when he was warring. "And I come to free the Negro people.

The only thing that's fair about me is the colour of my hair. People should remember that.

People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

Tell them I'm coming, mr. Jones.

Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to

Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.

Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.

Sometimes being a leader isn't about winning. Sometimes it's about doing what's right, instead of what's powerful.

That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!

You want me to help you because fair is fair? Life isn't fair Dean. Try help me so I don't rip your spin out and beat you with it. I might respond to that. Maybe.

You know, when you're right,that's all you get to be.

Here's something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down 1-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car, you might get stopped.

But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia

Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.

A COINCIDENCE in a police investigation is like an honest man in politics.

If I could run the world, I'd find another way to treat most of these criminals—most of them, not all of them—but we find widespread solutions to widespread problems in this country, so we just build big prisons and stick everyone inside them and, for the most part, forget about them once they're gone. Noah

why does doing the right thing feel so bad?

He's wearing a dog tag. His name is Henry Webb. His unit is called BLM." "What does it mean?" "Black Like Me. A solidarity movement, I suppose.

What we do know is that Aaron Hernandez was an escape artist. On the football field, no one could catch him. In Florida, he was a few steps removed from a terrible shooting that no one had answered for. In Boston, he almost certainly committed a double murder that he got away with. And when Aaron was caught, and convicted, for Odin Lloyd's murder, he continued to find new ways to escape. By killing himself, he escaped a long life behind bars.

Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.

Let's show Dr. God what hell feels like.