Quotes About Justice

I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all the time. And also, I want to make clear that my reason for starting these notes at a point of personal anguish and suffering is that these experiences marked the end of a corrupt pimp life and were the prelude to a still mauled, but constructive new life.

Mr. Pierce, you're going home tomorrow." "Are you serious?" She explained that Governor Brown had signed the order officially granting me parole: January 8, 2016, was my release date.

The judge pronounced the sentence, and those words kept echoing in my head: Thirty-five years to life. His gavel came down and the court officers led me back to the holding cell.

Karma will do that to you, man—give you a little sliver of hope and then slam the door in your motherfucking face.

I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.

The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation—that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward.

Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.

Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it does seem to me that notwithstanding all these social agencies and activities there is not that vigilance which should be exercised in the preservation of our rights.

In nearly all communities wife beating is punishable with a fine, and in no community is it made a felony.

LYNCHED BECAUSE THE JURY ACQUITTED HIM The entire system of the judiciary of this country is in the hands of white people. To this add the fact of the inherent prejudice against colored people, and it will be clearly seen that a white jury is certain to find a Negro prisoner guilty if there is the least evidence to warrant such a finding. Meredith Lewis was arrested in Roseland, La., in July of last year. A white jury found him not guilty of the crime of murder wherewith he stood charged.

for all victims of the terrible injustice which puts men and women to death without form of law. During the year 1894, there were 132 persons executed in the United States by due form of law, while in the same year, 197 persons were put to death by mobs who gave the victims no opportunity to make a lawful defense.

ASKING WHITE WOMAN TO MARRY HIM May 23, William Brooks, Galesline, Ark.

Those who commit the murders write the reports

Saying of the Prophet Helping others I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not.

Saying of the Prophet The Judge A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

Saying of the Prophet Truth Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.

Helping others I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Bribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

El ladrón que no ha sido atrapado es un rey.