Quotes About Justice

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

All men are created Equal. Some just have more Splenda.

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President .

What is the essence of our America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own.

born to avenge my sex and dominate yours

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?

Because we looked away in the past, does that mean we can look away now? Page 76

Honey, your uncle don't even have his papers right. What kind of liberties you think he has?" Aisha

It's not always the story of what happened to you. It's the story the judge wants to hear.

me he vuelto culpable porque no hay otra manera de ser inocente

Que os justos avancem Avancem Ainda que sejam imperfeitos E estejam feridos

Lo más trágico no es ser mediocre pero inconsciente de esa mediocridad; lo más trágico es ser mediocre y saber que se es así y no conformarse con ese destino que, por otra parte (eso es lo peor), es de estricta justicia.

Antes sólo daba su coima el que quería conseguir algo ilícito. Vaya y pase. Ahora también da coima el que quería conseguir algo lícito. Y esto quiere decir relajo total.

Los que a sabiendas hieren y matan y torturan, se creen fieles lacayos de la muerte, pero esos imbéciles no saben que, desde tiempo inmemorial, la parquísima inmola a sus lacayos. Cuando

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.