Quotes About Justice

I'm sorry to hear that," DeMarco said, although he wasn't sorry. As far as he was concerned Tony deserved to die alone.

Shall we side with those who scorn us, or choose our own path, to protect the innocent from those who would exploit and corrupt them?

The rape of a child is a violent act of contempt, not an expression of sexuality or affection.

And let's stop calling them "sex offenders," as if their crimes had anything to do with sex. (Perhaps Jeffry Dahmer was a "food offender.")

I've told you before I'm not guilty of anything; I'm just guilty, that's all.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

She was thankful that in her job, she didn't have to choose sides—she fought against currency counterfeiters, stock and bond forgers, money launderers, diamond smugglers—in short, lowlifes like Spyro Leandrou who engaged in activities that were universally perceived as wrong.

If life was fair, we'd get treated the way the we treat others and if life was fair, we'd get paid exactly what we are worth. And in the end, we'd all get exactly what we deserve. So, son, maybe it's better if life isn't fair. Sometimes I'm thankful that life isn't fair.

Remember that the poor are people with names," writes Bryant Myers, author of Walking with the Poor. "[They are] people with whom and among whom God has been working before we even knew they were there.

Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd; truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society.

The liberty of every individual is only the reflection of his own humanity, or his human right through the conscience of all free men, his brothers and his equals.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but he don't know it, and that's where the trouble is. Now come on before you get us into a real mess.

Baby, we have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both

The Lord forgives, but the world does not forgive.

A good God wouldn't have let my babies die. I can't believe in that. My babies did nothing wrong." "I agree. They did nothing wrong." He looked at her thoughtfully. "But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything than we know.

Sins couldn't be laundered by good results.