Quotes About Justice

It was never possible to do something back to someone that would undo what he had done to you.

What do you make of the proposition that the definition of a truly free society is a place where you can still get away with something?

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

Fraser's widely influential version of a distinction between the politics of recognition and the politics of redistribution, first articulated in Justice Interruptus (1997), very carefully notes that these are analytical distinctions, and not a real world separation between intertwined political histories.

To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.

Sometimes it's hard not to question. We spend our lives taking down the bad guys, trying to bring order to a world where injustice wins out more often than not. But neither can we blame God for man's choices. That's what always seems to help me hold on to my faith. The reality of God is bigger than the failings of man." "It's

God, sometimes I feel so . . . weak. I can't do this on my own. I'm too tired, too scared, and yet for some reason you put me here to fight this battle. It was a fight for those who couldn't fight for themselves. A fight for justice and all that should be right in the world when it wasn't. It was all she really wanted to do. Make a difference. Whether she was a schoolteacher or working beside the FBI to save a young girl.

She was the one who went after the criminals. Not the other way around.

softly, "with the little ones. Make it fair." Meg was about to complain but then she took

My father's going to take everything you own and then break your life.

Yes. I agree. We are done here. I am sorry to have upset you, Miss Jones. But what we mustn't forget, whatever the truth of this situation, a young woman was killed in that house. Violently killed. This must remain the focus and I will keep making people cry for as long as it takes to find out who did it and why.

You and I both know this doesn't have a damned thing to do with honor.

There is no peace in poverty

Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.

I do not believe there are any circumstances in which a judge should consider his or her own values or policy preferences in determining what the law means.

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

Freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law... are universal values of the human spirit.

Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history, and loved our most treasured values of freedom, democracy, justice.

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.