Quotes About Justice

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

The small boys came early to the hanging.

A white American can orbit the earth, but a black American can't enter a restroom.

Trials rarely found men not guilty. The general view was that if a man were innocent he would not have got into trouble in the first place.

He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.

After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.

Carla had never before realized how much she had been protected by politicians, newspapermen, and lawyers. Without them, she saw now, the government could do anything it liked, even kill people.

Some men craved deference; others craved wine, or the bodies of beautiful women, or the monastic life of order and obedience. What did Ned crave? The answer came into his mind with a speed and effortlessness that took him by surprise: justice.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you

Sergeant Grigori Peshkov. He was elected unopposed. Grigori was pleased. He knew what life was like for soldiers and workers, and he would bring the machine-oil smell of real life to the corridors of power. He would never forget his roots and put on a top hat. He would make sure that unrest led to improvements, not to random violence. Now he had a real chance to make a better life for Katerina and Vladimir.

We have never made a gain, in civil rights, without pressure

Next week I shall ask the Congress of the United States to act, to make a commitment it has not fully made this century, to the proposition that"—he had gone formal, but now he reverted to plain language—"race has no place in American life or law.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought.

No se puede encarcelar a la oposición y seguir fingiendo que crees en la libertad.

And so, Aldred thought, great ones sin with impunity while lesser men are brutally chastised.

los hombres deberían ser ascendidos en virtud de su inteligencia, no de su cuna.

The world has become wicked. Heresy, lasciviousness, and disrespect are rife. Men question authority, women flaunt their bodies, children disobey their parents. God is angry, and His rage is fearsome. Don't try to run from His justice! It will find you, no matter where you hide.

And that would be sufficient, if we lived in a world that was ruled by laws." Aldred sat on a stool, leaned forward, and spoke quietly. "But the man matters more than the law, as you know.

Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who constantly says, like Bobby Kennedy: 'I agree with the goal you seek, but I cannot condone your methods.

Je n'ai pas gagné au tribunal […] mais ce que j'ai obtenu est infiniment plus précieux. Aujourd'hui, j'ai sauvé l'âme d'un homme.

An evident principle runs through the whole program," Wilson had said. "It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak." Tears had come to Gus's eyes when he had read these words. "The people of the United States could act upon no other principle," Wilson had said.

That my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character—I have a dream today.

keep citizens waiting hours. A dose of German efficiency would do them a world of good. The same went for the disorderly Italians. Eastern Europe would benefit most of all. The old Russian Empire was still in the Middle Ages, with ragged peasants starving in hovels, and women flogged for adultery. Germany would bring order, justice, and modern agricultural methods.