Quotes About Justice

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

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.

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.