Quotes About Justice

You're willing to just sit by and push papers around your desk while this guy literally gets away with murder and keeps on killing.

week. Mr. Sheriff, would you bring in the defendant?" Nix was waiting at a side door. He nodded, opened the door, and seconds later appeared with Pete Banning, who walked in slowly, with no handcuffs, tall and erect, his face showing no concern but with his eyes on the floor. He seemed not to notice the crowd watching his every move. Pete hated neckties and wore a dark jacket over a white shirt. John Wilbanks had thought it important to wear

Okay, let's have it.

The rights of the homeless would be protected, as long as they could find us. And their voices would be heard through ours.

El camino de la justicia está plagado de obstáculos y bombas trampa, la mayoría de ellos creados por hombres y mujeres que aseguran ser defensores de la justicia.

everyone felt some measure of relief. Drug trafficking was dealt a severe blow, though

It's not slander if it's true.

Some OPD lawyers were zealously committed to defending the poor and oppressed, and for them the job was not a stepping-stone to another career. Regardless of how little they earned or how tight their budgets were, they thrived on the lonely independence of their work and the satisfaction of protecting the underdog.

Hop fell to his knees and pleaded, "Please, Mista Banning. I ain't done nothin'. I got kids, Mista Banning.

And the story I can tell you involves more dirty cash than all the others combined. It also involves bribery, extortion, intimidation, rigged trials, at least two murders, and one wrongful conviction. There's a man rotting away on death row an hour from here who was framed. The man responsible for the crime is probably sitting on his boat right now, a boat much nicer than mine.

She was as responsible for his death as he was for hers. Above them, they left behind two fine children who didn't deserve to be punished for the sins of their parents.

McClure turned, pointed an angry finger at Hugh, and said, "This man is a cold-blooded killer who deserves the death penalty." All twelve glared at the defendant. The courtroom was still, silent. Though the first witness had yet to be called, the trial was over. Hugh absorbed the words without flinching. He was determined to look

If he hath offended in any sort, we shall exhibit the said David before the lords of Parliament to be punished.

She took the castle and hanged the captain from the walls of the battlements.

his personal sacrifice was limited, but his family lost all their property when he was outlawed.

On the scaffold, he shouted out the truth to the assembled crowd.

Her trial was fast approaching and the spider's web all but complete.

The development of adversary criminal trial raised an acute theoretical challenge, which has never been satisfactorily resolved in the Anglo-American tradition: how to justify the truth-impairing tendencies of a procedure that remits to partisans the work of gathering and presenting the evidence upon which accurate adjudication depends.

Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." Our generation has mastered the art of looking the other way when evil presents its face of terror and death.

Every single thing that touches your life, religious, socially and politically, must be an instrument of your liberation or you must throw it into the ashcan of history.

If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.

The only government tolerated by libertarians is one that exercises only retaliatory use of force on anyone who initiates the use of force against anyone else within its borders.

A fascist is anyone who, seeing a man working hard and earning money, says, He's getting more than we are, let's pass