Quotes About Justice

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

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

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

God is so angry. All that power, and so mean with it.

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.

There's no way to use power for good.

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.