Quotes About Justice

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means.

All white people are enemies until proved otherwise, and this applies to black intellectuals, all of us are enemies to the people until we prove otherwise.

Certain issues are not yet clear about the final shape of society in America. Some form of co-existence with whites is the desired goal of virtually all black leaders, but it must be a society which blacks have a hand in shaping, and blacks should have power commensurate with their numbers and contribution to US development. To get that, they have to fight.

Revenge is a feast for the gods!

Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to the tyrant.

Such an institution could only prevail at a time when ordinary means of justice were excluded by the hand of power, and when, in order to bring the guilty to punishment, it required all the influence and authority of such a confederacy. In no other country than one exposed to every species of feudal tyranny, and deprived of every ordinary mode of obtaining justice or redress, could such a system have taken root and flourished.

What!" said Bois-Guilbert, "so soon?" "Ay," replied the preceptor, "trial moves rapidly on when the judge has determined the sentence beforehand.

Fear to do base unworthy things is valour;      If they be done to us, to suffer them      Is valour too.

mercy to a criminal may be gross injustice to the community.

Traitor's word never yet hurt honest cause

lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion.

there are stratagems in law as well as war.

God will raise me up a champion, said Rebecca. It cannot be that in merry England---the hospitable, the generous, the free, where so many are ready to peril their lives for honour, there will not be found one to fight for justice. But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat---there lies my gage.

If the U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, they cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. On 9/11/2001, Americans noticed that payback can be a real motherfucker.

Quinn: "Shiiiiiiit. I nearly killed him." Blay: "Well, arguably you were being gallant." referring to strangling Saxton for cheating on Blay. Black Dagger Brotherhood #11 Lover at Last

Every law that curbs my basic human freedom; every lie about the things I care for; every crime committed against me by their politics; that what's makes me get up and hound these fuckers, and I'll do that until the day I die... or until my brain dries up or something.

Three-quarters of dads who were in South Carolina jails for being behind in child support payments suffer from extreme poverty. And one-eighth of all South Carolina inmates are in jail for being behind in child support payments. No dad is imprisoned for not spending enough time with his children. And it is rare for a mom to go to jail for preventing dad from spending enough time with his children.

The police were in no mood for a lesson on constitutional law from a Sudanese refugee.

Não é a injustiça que conta, é o que você faz a respeito dela.

A lei não decide se a coisa é errada, apenas se é legal.

The highest justice is to see without preference.

no one is special or better than anyone else. This sentiment is echoed in the Christian scriptures: "[God] sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous" (Matt. 5:45).

Who decides the rightness? That is the question that can never be answered satisfactorily. The law doesn't decide if it's wrong, only if it's legal.