Quotes About Justice

Common sense often makes good law.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

The law often allows what honor forbids.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Being attorney general has truly allowed me to be a voice for justice for the people of Illinois and oftentimes the country - and I love it.

There was a young Black officer that I heard rumors that he had said stuff like, 'Oh I'll lock her down, I don't give a damn who she is.' I was so mad when he finally locked me down because it was for no reason.

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

I can say I have forgiven my captors. That being said, I never want to see them again. I'm not OK with they did to me.

Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

Money laundering is not a crime. It's just because certain men with guns don't like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it's okay to lock those people in a cage.

When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

Respectfully, the civil rights movement for people with disabilities is modeled on the African American civil rights movement. I'm old enough to remember 1964. I was a junior in high school.

I'm just a feeble old man but I represent the spirit of speaking out.

'No Country for Old Men' was epic.

Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that.

I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.

I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit.

Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.