Quotes About Justice

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He'll Swing!

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.

There's no joy to be had seeing any black man, any black man taking a perp walk, let alone some of whom meant so much to us for so long.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

My mom used to get involved with the Black Panther activities in Los Angeles. For me it was more about how to view my consciousness on these issues with a biblical framework.

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

You always think "woulda, coulda, shoulda." I wish that I had prosecuted Tot Mom, I wish I'd prosecuted OJ, and I wish I had prosecuted the JonBenet Ramsey case.