Quotes About Justice

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Text after text, scholars never tired of trying to compensate for sentencing women to eternal drudgery, which they themselves abhorred, by dreaming up fancy ways of labeling it, easing their consciences and allowing them to view their self-serving little world of men-gods as a fair, nay noble, thing.

Of course, everyone had heard of the Ten Commandments, but these things, so much subtler, so embedded in the stuff of everyday human life and human interactions--this was the ultimate goal of all Jewish life: justice, kindness, charity, Holiness.

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

I hope we have not sunk so low in American society that plain, simple, justice according to the Constitution must be regarded as a perk. Police

My conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct.

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

Din, fakirlerin zenginleri öldürmesine engel olur.

We are waging war as generous enemies, and we wish only to crush the tyrants who enslave you.

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

Vengeance has no foresight.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Hay ladrones a los que no se castiga, pero que roban lo más preciado: el tiempo.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

The time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.

Desperate, Tillman confessed to charges of murder and rape for which he wasn't responsible - a few weeks later, the CPD caught the real killer - but Burge still turned Tillman's false confession over to Daley's prosecutors, and Tillman was convicted.

As many as twenty men who were tortured by Burge are still in prison. Their fight for freedom continues.

Jesus Himself, the Lover and Uniter of humanity, often stood up and spoke out for what was right or needed to be reinterpreted, even though it caused problems in the "church" He was loyal to. So much so, they killed Him for it.