Quotes About Justice

Nevertheless, when we fail to investigate and/or believe the victim, we become complicit with the abuse.

There is no such thing as an immutable truth, much as our hearts might yearn for it and our justice systems demand it; there are only the stories we tell ourselves.

And if some people heard "meth addict murders three people" or "mother throws children from bridge" and thought, get rid of them, and then voted for the death penalty? "But that just isn't justice," he said, later emphasizing, "It's a pendulum swing. I still don't quite understand why the United States wants that kind of vengeance, and that's all it is.

Who, after all, was to say, what was the 'right side' of the war, especially after the turmoil, the food shortages, and scarcity of luxuries?

The accused were considered guilty unless proven innocent.

Punishments were severe, their harshness underscored by the fact that they were written in blood. At the very least, petty thieves were beaten with whips. Those convicted of stealing property...routinely lost an army or a leg. the most serious offenders were tied to a post, where, as it was stipulated, 'his body shall be taken as a target,' with arrows.

documentary The Invisible War (which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and

The Lord might work in mysterious ways he told himself, but human beings performed untold evils. - Dr. Christopher Logan

I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon

Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!

I won't let you take advantage of women! Here's the Mars Power flame of anger! (ROAR) I'll punish you in high heels!" - Rei/Sailor Mars

Looks like you've learned your lesson! The planet of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, can even use the stink of a toot in the name of lovely justice!" -Sailor Venus

Now they will know," shouts one woman into Tunde's camera, "that they are the ones who should not walk out of their houses alone at night. They are the ones who should be afraid.

Men are no longer permitted to vote – because their years of violence and degradation have shown that they are not fit to rule or govern.

who can say why these things happen on Thursday, when the same events might have gone unremarked on Tuesday?—they fought back. A dozen women turned into a hundred. A hundred into a thousand. The police retreated. The women shouted; some made placards. They understood their strength, all at once.

Ahora saben que son ellos los que no deben salir de casa solos de noche. Son ellos los que deben tener miedo —grita una mujer a la cámara

A volte penso che la mia vita sia una punizione per la mia inadeguatezza, e che l'inadeguatezza a sua volta sia una punizione. Ma penso: se Dio mi vuole punire, così sia. È un Suo diritto. Ma è mio diritto disobbedire

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet.

Worse things have been done than that. Yes, much worse. Yet perhaps the death of the very innocent always carries a curse.

There's liberty in the other scale. It's heavy".

A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp.

I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life.

the philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124