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Quotes About Justice

You are the breath of God. You are the way God is aware of God in the immediacy of your life. You are the way God feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, frees the wrongly imprisoned. You are the way God brings justice, mercy, and humility to life. But because you want to be more, you end up being less: the way God brings horror, hate, and holocaust to every corner of the globe.
~ Cynthia Bourgeault
Centering Prayer is aimed at healing the violence in ourselves and purifying the unconscious of its hidden and flawed motivation that reduces and can even cancel out the effectiveness of the external works of mercy, justice, and peace.
~ Cynthia Bourgeault
Could we get on with this? I have a case waiting." Annette's brows rose. "Jane, you and I both deal with the dead. You're a homicide detective—any case you have can just keep waiting. Not like the guy will get any deader.
~ Unknown
You got cop friends down here, too? Will they save you when I press charges?" Davis shrugged. "Let's find out." Jamie
~ Unknown
I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine
~ Cynthia Lord
It is seldom that any judge really gets to the bottom of a case. The well of truth is usually too deep for the merely judicial plumb-line.
~ Unknown
I've got my rights, haven't I? If I choose to say nothing, I suppose I can. It's no use your trying to use third degree methods on me." "Nowadays," said Mallett quietly, "people of your sort usually call them 'Gestapo methods'. You should try to be a little more up to date.
~ Unknown
Glad to see you, Pettigrew. Are you defending the bigamy to-morrow?" "Alas! I am neither prosecuting nor defending. In fact, I am here on false pretences. For the time being, I am the lowest thing in the scale of human creation." The Clerk's bushy eyebrows met in a frown. "You're not going to tell me you've been summoned on a jury?" he said incredulously.
~ Unknown
Daily he was called upon to solve the insoluble, to divine the truth between competing perjuries, to apportion derisory incomes among innumerable creditors,
~ Unknown
The big thieves hang the little ones.
~ Czech Proverb
Human reason is beautiful and invincible.No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
~ Czeslaw Milosz
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.
~ Czeslaw Milosz
California has legislatively barred alimony payments to a dependent spouse who has attempted to murder the supporting spouse. Cal. Fam. Code § 4324.
~ Unknown
for these men have given their bodies to be trained to fight. They are going to fight for freedom and justice; they are going to fight for their country; they are going to fight for me. Yes, it comes to that. They are going to fight—and perhaps die—for me and mine, and I can do nothing to show my gratitude. I cannot do anything at all for them.
~ D.E. Stevenson
All war is awful," says Guthrie. "It's a wrong and horrible thing, war is, but we don't need to worry about the rights and wrongs of war. We tried our best for peace. We tried for peace to the absolute limit of honour . . . but you can't have peace when a pack of ravening wolves gets loose . . . Let's talk about Avielochan.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Will your client win her case? " I asked. " Win her case! I can tell you this: if she doesn't win her case it will be a serious miscarriage of justice. Do you understand what that means, David? " " Yes," I said, grinning at him. " It means that the court doesn't agree with you.
~ D.E. Stevenson
If any class or race can be permanently set apart from, or pushed down below the rest in political or civil rights, so may any other class or race when it shall incur the displeasure of its more powerful associates, and we may say farewell to the principles on which we count our safety.
~ Unknown
Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.
~ Jane Mayer
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
~ John Dalberg-Acton
I think a lot about intergenerational justice. Short-term versus long-term helps to explain a lot of the policy disagreements that happen between the parties, and I would argue that in most ways, we are the party with more long-term thinking.
~ Pete Buttigieg
Bipolar disorder is so swept under the rug as a nation and, I think especially, by black people. It's not our culture to go get therapy. 'Give them medicine for what?' We put people in court, put them in court again, versus really paying attention to what it is they are going through.
~ Trai Byers
This is not about race or affiliation, and it isn't about black versus blue. All lives matter.
~ Marcia Fudge