Quotes About Justice

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

it does not make much difference what kind of a law we make as long as the judges tell us what it means.

When they want a working man for anything excepting work they want him for conspiracy.

No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people

The first great cause of crime is poverty, and we will never cure crime until we get rid of poverty.

George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

There is no such thing as justice - in or our of court.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts; but, without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

You can only be free if I am free.

Jesus did not want to be economically vulnerable. He wanted to be poor so that he could make his decisions clearly without any distortion of vision. Because Jesus wanted to see clearly, because he didn't want to be vulnerable, and because he wanted to deal justly and to walk humbly with his God, he was a pauper.

We cannot enter the kingdom of peace with a six-shooter on our hip.

The acquittal of O.J. Simpson shows what can happen when you try to frame a guilty person.

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

And the churches are full of those who fear God's wrath. And those who plead for mercy which is the opposite of wrath. No, no, I do not feel sorry for those who die of hunger. What I feel is rage. And I see no harm in stealing to eat.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

If abandoned rage asks, Who should answer for this? / Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.

What is it we want for our daughter? Perhaps it's the ability to negotiate the world with an empathic imagination. The thing that brought both my husband and me to the gymnasium is the knowledge that though the deep-seated racist systems are reaffirmed and the evidence is there for us to see, I still want the world for my daughter that is more than this world, a world that has our daughter already in it.

essential desire for equity and the ability to live freely without the fear of white terrorism literally trumps everything, as former first lady Michelle Obama expresses in Becoming.

Just us, just people, the same people, but what is it that the just people are feeling or wanting or being? The brouhaha so brutal, rising, rising up, rise up. What rises up within, between us? What comes up because we are the history within us?