Quotes About Justice

Murderer of Vuka and Jumadi, see now how Tugars can die.

Well, we've only had a certain number of executions in the last few years- whatever it was- and two of them were for the personal convenience of Truman Capote.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

What do you want? You're finished. You don't begin to suspect how finished you are. When all these people hear about what you've done to their folks, they're just going to mob you. They'd hang you, but you won't last that long. They'll tear you apart like a pack of dogs.

Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

To dragoon man into the adoption of what we think right, is an intolerable tyranny.

the law has neither eyes, nor ears, nor bowels of humanity; and it turns into marble the hearts of all those that are nursed in its principles.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

We are agreed that the son shall not be disgraced even by the crime of the father, much less by the crime of a more distant relative. It

Rights do not pertain to results, but only to chances. They

The men who have not done their duty in this world never can be equal to those who have done their duty more or less well. If

Every man in society is bound in nature and reason to contribute to the strength and welfare of society. He ought to work, to be peaceful, honest, just, and virtuous. A

Who dares say that he is not the friend of the poor man? Who dares say that he is the friend of the employer? I

We have an instance right at hand. The Negroes, once slaves in the United States, used to be assured care, medicine, and support; but they spent their efforts, and other men took the products. They

If we pull down those who are most fortunate and successful, shall we not by that very act defeat our own object? Those

that rights and duties should be in equilibrium. A

The grave was never intended to be a sanctuary to defend sinners from the hand of justice, but a close prison to secure them against the day of trial, that they may be forthcoming.

Conscience is God's sergeant he employs to arrest the sinner.

Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman.

To those who don't understand why Fenton or Feinstein didn't simply put Holmes into a hospital whether he wanted to go or not: it just doesn't work that way. Protection from unjustified confinement is a very important civil right in the United States.

In a community where mobs do not appear to take white prisoners from jail cells to lynch them, who is really responsible for the lynching of a Negro prisoner, the band who actually blew out his brain or those of us in the church who say of Willie Earle and his kind, "RACA"—you're an empty-headed, worthless nigger! (That's about the meaning of the word "Raca" as Jesus used it in the 5th Chapter of Matthew.)