Quotes About Justice

Madge Oberholtzer deserves a plaque of her own.

To say that there is no causal connection between the acts of appellant and the death of Madge Oberholtzer, and that the treatment accorded her by appellant had no causal connection with the death of Madge Oberholtzer would be a travesty of justice," the court majority wrote in 1932, upholding the murder conviction.

The Klan of the 1920s had enough control of the legal system to ensure that those who gutted the wealthiest Black community in the United States, a mass murder of American citizens, would not face justice.

A handful of Hoosiers were heroic—two rabbis, an African American publisher born enslaved, a fearless Catholic lawyer, a small-town editor repeatedly beaten and thrown in jail, a lone prosecutor.

he showed no outward fear of getting caught; law enforcement couldn't touch him. And because the Klan had made him rich, money further immunized him from justice.

We are the law itself—the same boast would be heard in Indiana

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. —MALCOLM X, Malcolm X Speaks

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have."—John Rawls

Martin Luther King, Jr., famously remarked that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." Learning is similar—

You only have the rights you fight for.

Follow What Angers You

Martin Luther King, Jr., famously remarked that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." Learning

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. —BISHOP DESMOND TUTU, South African cleric and activist

Luther urged Christians to accept civic responsibility (so long as it did not violate the claims of Christ) for the sake of the neighbor. This mandate extended even to those manifestly violent offices of the sword: "If you see that there is a lack of hangmen, constables, judges, lords, princes, and you find that you are qualified, you should offer your services and seek the position.

Criminals/sinners-from the Black Panthers to FBI chiefs and White House Officials-appear on the scene, make their play, and get dragged off stage, but the lawyers remain, administrating and profiting from the action and booking the next show.

The decision to forgive is first a heart transaction between you and God. It is a willingness to give up your desire to hold onto (and in some way punish the person for) his offense against you. Instead, you entrust the person and the offense to God, believing that he is righteous and just. You make a decision to respond to this person with an attitude of grace and forgiveness.

Godly conflict is an act of compassion!

I can only grant forgiveness to the other person if he repents and admits he has sinned against me.

If political leaders choose which rights to give citizens, then there must be a caste of leaders who enjoy greater freedom than do the citizens who are the recipients of these "rights." That is, the rulers must stand on a higher plane from which they can hand down judgments about what rights are to be given to or withheld from the people below.

To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose but to promote that of some other, is evidently contrary to that justice and equality of treatment which the sovereign owes to all the different orders of his subjects."40 Changes

brings to mind the tribulations of those groups—blacks in the 19th century, women in the 20th, gays in the 21st—who have learned through struggle that freedom is not given, only claimed.

to presume that some people are fundamentally entitled to decide how much freedom others should enjoy. What Would It Mean if the State Did Create Freedom? The danger of confusing the state's protection of prepolitical rights on one hand, with its creation of rights/privileges on the other, becomes clear when we ask whether the state creates, say, a woman's right not to be raped.

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.