Quotes About Justice

I razzisti vanno in Paradiso. Quello dei neri.

primo passo di ogni guerra è la disumanizzazione del nemico. Il nemico non è un uomo come te, quindi non ha gli stessi diritti.

if we are going to continue to be proud that we are Americans, there must be no weakening of the code by which we have lived; by the right to meet your accuser face to face, if you have one; by your right to go to the church or the synagogue or even the mosque of your own choosing; by your right to speak your mind and be protected in it. Ladies and gentlemen, the things that make us proud to be Americans are the soul and the spirit.

Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.

Many people believe that karma is linear: If you do some terrible (or wonderful) thing, you will receive your just desserts. However, the way it seems to be set up is not as personal as that. You have a thought or take some action, and there is a result. The consequences will be experienced, but not necessarily by you, and nobody knows when.

But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest

With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who deviated from the right path. He, by his stance honorably acquired martyrdom martyrdom that free people wish to acquire.

For evil to succeed, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing.

I think the greatest legacy of the civil rights movement is that it made America a better place for all of us, regardless of race or ethnicity.

The next time you say 'Life isn't fair' remember that 40% of the world lives on less than $2/day and does not eat every day. How does your 'not fair' compare to theirs? - Tom Cunningham

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Police discipline certainly does occur; it just does not often lead to change.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

It always had occurred to me that drugs misuse was obviously a major driver of demand in the criminal justice system.

You found during apartheid a strange occurrence from the white folks themselves. There were those who did make a choice to speak out and stand and be counted in the army of human beings who believed in justice. And then there are those who left.

The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.

If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

Our justice system is a punitive one that's there to sort of deal with what happens after someone's already offended.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

The majority of our criminals that we lock up are non-violent offenders.

Many offenders have had immensely difficult upbringings and do not have the support of loving families and friends.

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

I think we do have to be conscious that sometimes there are different issues with women offenders than there are with men.