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Quotes About Justice

Sorry we're late," Jason said. "Is this the guy who needs killing?
~ Rick Riordan House of Hades
The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.
~ Rick Warren
If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about;
~ Rick Warren
eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)
~ Kate Atkinson
Louise would have removed his organs without anesthetic and given them to more worthy people.
~ Kate Atkinson
Sacrifice,' " Sylvie said, "is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.") But
~ Kate Atkinson
She could understand why someone might want to kill a queue jumper. If it had been up to her she would have summarily executed a great many people by now—people who dropped litter in the street, for example, they would certainly think twice about the discarded sweet wrapper if it resulted in being strung up from the nearest lamppost.
~ Kate Atkinson
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. JOHN 8:32
~ Kate Atkinson
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing. The
~ Kate Atkinson
The differences in the way men and women are treated are real. And the fact is this difference in treatment has no basis in the differences between men and women. I was the same person, and I was treated entirely differently. I got real interested in feminist theory--real fast.
~ Kate Bornstein
Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not.
~ Kate Chopin
A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime...
~ Kate Chopin
This malfeasance must be stopped," said Flora in a deep and superheroic voice.
~ Kate DiCamillo
If you knew about something that was locked up in a cage, something big and beautiful that was locked away unfairly, for no good reason, and you had the key to the cage, would you let it go?
~ Kate DiCamillo
He, who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor less to others paying Than by self offenses weighing. Shame to him whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking!
~ Kate Elliott
War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.
~ Kate Elliott
If we want a better world, we must never cease to think about what kind of world we want... and we must not be afraid to do whatever it takes to make the world the way it should be. It is not enough just to talk. We must act!
~ Kate Forsyth
In the face of such evil, what else is there to do but wipe it off the face of the earth?
~ Kate Long
The editorial—written by a liberated man—suggested legal and social remedies but concluded that "perhaps we can begin with the ultra-radical notion that a woman is a human being.
~ Katharine Graham
No longer would the Post write such lines as one identified by Chal Roberts in his history of the paper: "Sam Jones, 24, Negro, was arrested for larceny yesterday." Overnight, he eliminated "freebies"—trips paid for by the government and free tickets for anything. Also, after just a few weeks on the job, he called in the police reporter, Al Lewis, to ask if he was having parking
~ Katharine Graham
You save the whales and shoot the people, huh?
~ Katherine Paterson
It is the principle of the things, Jess. That is what you have got to understand. You have to stop people like that. Otherwise they run into tyrants and dictators.
~ Katherine Paterson
It's the principle of the thing, Jess . That's what you've got to understand. You have to stop people like that. Otherwise they turn into tyrants and dictators.
~ Katherine Paterson
There is revenge and then there is justice. Sometimes the two are met as one. -Christopher
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss