Quotes About Justice

He was sentenced to one year in a small juvenile detention home in town. Most of the kids were in for drugs. Carmack was in for an Apple II.

Remember 'karma'. As you sow, you shall reap. If you are not greedy and make sure that the next

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging preventative wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

You're believing in love more than I do; you're standing up for someone who is less than deserving.

I know there's a twisted code of honor about never tattling on another student, never speaking up against someone who's done you wrong. I know I will only make it worse by breaking this code. But the code of honor was written by bullies for the protection of bullies, and I don't want to follow it.

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

There is a fervent joy in taking action. There is a non-abstract importance in what we are doing. The balance between right and wrong is always in question, and the only way to ensure we tip toward justice is to make sure our weight is firmly planted on the side of right. We are driving down to add our weight to the scale. We are singing because voices add as much weight as bodies do -A

En esta vida extraña, lo que quiero por encima de todo es que Tony sea feliz. Hace mucho tiempo que sabemos que no estábamos predestinados a enamorarnos, pero una parte de mí sigue ilusionándose por él. Quiero un mundo justo. Y en un mundo justo, Tony brillaría.

They had no right to deny us. But they had every right to feel things.

I bought his Evidence That Demands a Verdict

Art has no chance of making the world more just than politics has of making it more beautiful.

Justice is the application of previously decided and accepted norms of conduct and the rules for their examination and dispute.

Justice is the application of previously decided and accepted norms of conduct and the rules for their examination and dispute. It is as imperfect as any other institution. But a dispassionate, considerate, supportable, and moral resolution of differences is the goal toward which it aspires.

Cuál es la utilidad de ser bueno con un pobre? Preguntó Cicerón.

Zola nunca se encontró con Dreyfus.

of karma," or "You get what you give," or "You reap what you sow.

When we stand up and confront ourselves in ways our parents have not, a desire for justice makes it harder to forgive them in some ways. However, the increased differentiation this endeavor provides allows one to better self-soothe, to validate one's own experience, thereby unhooking the need for confession from one's parent. At this point, forgiveness becomes an act of self-caring and a deliberate decision to get on with one's life.

States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that it was put to a vote in the first place. If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas.