Quotes About Justice

Los chicos malos ya no roban bancos, ahora los compran.

La víctima, cuando siente que la autoridad la cuestiona, porque no se le cree de entrada, prefiere desistirse de la denuncia y renuncia a continuar el proceso jurídico. Le da la sensación de desprotección, de abandono, desamparo e impunidad, pues sabe que difícilmente probará el delito. En este país tiene más fuerza el dicho del agresor que el de la víctima.

En México, a las mujeres que denuncian les queda claro que el ministerio público no les cree, que no es su defensor y que está a favor del agresor. Estas actitudes producen un ciclo de revictimización de la denunciante y siente mucho temor porque percibe que no se valora la injusticia que se cometió en su contra. El Estado promueve la denuncia del delito y luego maltrata a la víctima.

el imaginario social condona al victimario y se centra en las víctimas como coadyuvantes". La psicóloga asegura que los pederastas como Succar Kuri "no son monstruos ni enfermos; son hombres con una patología social que, en pleno uso de sus facultades y de su poder, deciden planear, protegerse y ejecutar sistemáticamente un delito, cuidando todos los flancos para no ser detenidos".

Con cada libro adoptamos un miedo, pequeñito y delicado como un gusano de seda. El miedo a no hacer justicia a las palabras del otro, a no ser capaz de crear una metáfora digna del momento, un símbolo propio de esa voz o aquella mirada, el temor de habernos traicionado y escribir des del ego y no desde alma.

Con cada libro adoptamos un miedo, pequeñito y delicado como un gusano de seda. El miedo a no hacer justicia a las palabras del otro, a no ser capaz de crear una metáfora digna del momento, un símbolo propio de esa voz o aquella mirada, el temor de habernos traicionado y escribir desde el ego y no desde alma.

If I give all I have and you give all you have, isn't that a kind of equality? No, he says.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap at the ballot box.

A movement that begs for vengeance disguised as justice will not be as constructive or strong as beautiful as the movement that begs for peace!

There must be some honest lawyers at the New York bar, and some impartial judges on the New York bench, but I should not like to be set to find them.

Vengeance does not satisfy. It sometimes gluts, but it does not satisfy. The duelist, angered by insult or wrong, challenges his enemy to a duel, runs his sword through the body of his opponent, leaves the life-blood oozing out of his arteries, wipes his sword, and walks off in the brightness of the morning. Satisfied? Never! Nemesis follows him; the vision is ever before his eyes; he has taken his vengeance, and the vengeance itself nestles in his heart and breeds future penalty.

Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

Christ is the manifestation of God, not of certain attributes of God or certain phases of his administration. There is no justice to be feared in God that was not manifested in Christ; there is no mercy to attract in Christ that is not eternally in God.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Anger tried to boil up higher inside her. She closed her eyes, praying for God's peace. Human wrath was against the will of God and only gave Satan influence over a soul. Honor must leave these evil men to God's justice.

My mother is bold in her caused," George said. "We have never had a runaway slave come to our door, but I too would help him. My mother and I were forced to leave North Carolina when we freed our slaves. The anger our former neighbors and friends turned on us told us much. When a person does what is right, it stirs the rage of those who will not turn from doing the same evil.

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter—and to write in the books of law.

Freedom is not enough.