Quotes About Justice

He is the one who should apologize," he said to the foreman. "He broke down our door and sat on our fire.

Because karma, you know what they say about that. (They use a swear word.)

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

People don't obey a law just because they're told to. But if they know the consequences of an act and do it anyway, then that's a conscious and informed choice and they have no cause to protest the punishment.

We learned from her how to think for ourselves, how to jump eagerly into adventure and then get out of the scrapes it inevitably involves, how to get to the truth, and, perhaps most importantly, how to spin into action when things are not right.

Until I am welcomed everywhere as an equal simply because I am human, I remain a warrior on a battlefield that I must not leave. I continue to be a warrior who does not cry but who instead takes action. If one person is denied equality, we are all denied equality.

Then I remember I'd always been told, 'If a fellow's got so little manhood he'd hit a woman, it's up to that woman to relieve him of what few morsels of his masculinity remain.' I bent my knee and jammed my foot backward, up his crotch.

When she began graduate school, our people [blacks] couldn't attend classes with whites at the University of Arkansas. After much grumbling and dickering, white folks had begun to allow small departments to integrate, class by class.

She [Melba's mother] would tell us the story of the lone black man who was trying to integrate the law school. In the classroom, he was forced to sit confined by a white picket fence erected around his desk and chair.

Until I am welcomed everywhere as an equal simply because I am human, I remain a warrior on a battlefield that I must not leave. I continue to be a warrior who does not cry but who instead takes action. If one person is denied equality, we are all denied equality. —Melba Pattillo Beals

It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.

You can't go around feeling too much", Captain Travanion had explained watching a moment to ensure the man was indeed dead. "Because if you feel too much, enough to want to kill them so savagely then one day you are going to feel enough to spare their lives.

It is against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

There's no such thing as Atticus Finch.' I shrug. 'It'd be good if there was, though.

The same way most people get away with the wrong thing," she said. "Wealth. . .

It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety.

I'm not bloodthirsty, but...seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

Look at the creeps who favor capital punishment; you get the feeling they want to be the ones to pull the switch.

A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

I don't favor institutional capital punishment