Quotes About Justice

It was always about abortion. (185)

By a customary "rule of four," it takes the votes of four justices to accept a case for argument and decision—to "grant cert.

the Court occupies a place in the public imagination.

But we do have other choices, my dear. We can turn our backs on all that we know is right, sit ourselves down, fold our hands and allow wickedness to go unchallenged and therefore to prevail. We can run away and hide. Or we can stand our ground and fight inequality to our last heartbeat, knowing that if we perish, we have done all that we could and others will carry on, just as those who came before us have done.

In both London and Washington, and at the UN in New York, there were politicians and civil servants who took decisions that cost the lives of an incalculable number of people. They should bear full responsibility for those decisions.

Instead, women must conceive of themselves as potentially, if not actually, equal subjects, and must be willing to look the facts of their situation full in the face, without self-pity, or cop-outs; at the same time they must view their situation with that high degree of emotional and intellectual commitment necessary to create a world in which equal achievement will be not only made possible but actively encouraged by social institutions.

Not revenge. Justice. And not just for us and our parents, but for the whole world.

Fight hard and fight well. But know that a quest for justice without wisdom and compassion can all too easily become cruelty.

The innocent wept. The guilty pretended.

Men recorded their experiences and called it history; men looked about the world and called their observations science; men wondered about the existence of God and the problem of evil and called their speculations theology; men did handiwork and called it art; men made up stories, wrote them down and called them literature; men thought about such topics as truth, beauty, justice, and the nature of existence and called their opinions philosophy.

Research for social justice expands and improves the conditions for justice; it is an intellectual, cognitive and moral project, often fraught, never complete, but worthwhile

The challenge always is to demystify, to decolonize.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a book. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in a book.

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

Ethics are more important than law.

Power is acquired, not distributed. Equity is what gets distributed.

This world leaves the Black man with no choice but to dominate it.

Like it doesn't cater to the rich and abandon the poor

I don't think the world works on merit.

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.

One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

It took Christians many years to realize that we cannot love God and also keep humans as slaves. It has taken even longer for Christians to realize that we cannot love God and also regard women as second-class humans. Now is the time for Christians to realize that we cannot love God and hate the Creator's nonhuman creatures.

He's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind you want.