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Quotes About Justice

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.
~ Michael Jordan
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.
~ George W. Bush
I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.
~ Stephanie McMahon
...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.
~ Adolf Hitler
I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
~ Yulia Tymoshenko
My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.
~ Malaak Shabazz
He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.
~ Mitt Romney
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
~ N. T. Wright
The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
~ R. C. Sproul
Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.
~ Sam Brownback
Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!
~ Jeff Cooper
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
~ Langston Hughes
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
~ Jack Kornfield
People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat.
~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
~ William Shakespeare
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
~ David Boies
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
~ Thomas Paine
I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
~ John Grisham
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
~ Berthold Auerbach
I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
~ David Gemmell