Quotes About Justice

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

We must muster the courage, we must find the will, we must do what is necessary to build a truly transformative movement that will end the history and cycle of caste in America.

I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.