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Quotes About Justice

The Bill of Rights is the United States. The United States is the Bill of Rights. Compromise the Bill of Rights and you dissolve the very foundation upon which the Union stands.
~ A.E. Samaan
Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting.
~ A.J. Quinnell
Truth is on the march and nothing can stop it.
~ Émile Zola
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
~ Émile Zola
Men, again, who live up to the moral law, wont enslave their brethren.
~ Aaron
Freedom is the only thing worth fighting for. It is why tyrants always fall. - Primarch Angron
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Lieutenant Commander Galloway [behind a chain link fence at a ball field]: Do you know what a code red is? Lieutenant Kaffee, standing on the ball field, looks at her in silence with a blank expression on his face. Galloway: What a pity.
~ Aaron Sorkin
You can't handle the truth!" - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.
~ Aaron Sorkin
You can't handle the truth . You can't handle the sad but historic reality. - Lt.Col Nathan Jessep
~ Aaron Sorkin
LTJG Kaffee: I want the truth! Col Jessup: You can't handle the truth!
~ Aaron Sorkin
She didn't need to be someone else. She needed to use her power to make the world a better place.
~ Aaron Starmer
In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
~ Abbie Hoffman
A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. *It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult!* Before the people of the world - let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what *we* stand for: *justice, truth... and the value of a single human being!*
~ Abby Mann
My mother's father, Ahmed Musa Ibrahim, was an educated man, a travelled man, who had no time for these self-deluding patrician airs. He preferred to speak about justice and liberty and the right to self-fulfilment.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
My mother's father, Ahmed Musa Ibrahim, was an educated man, a travelled man, who had no time for these self-deluding patrician airs. He preferred to speak about justice and liberty and the right to self-fulfilment. He would pay for these words in due course. He had spent two years at Makerere College in Uganda and one year at Edinburgh University in Scotland, completing a Diploma in Public Health.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
~ Abel Hermant
Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
~ Aberjhani
Naked flights of art unshackled and incandescent songs of poetry undiluted return to the soul what hate, ignorance, fear, and violence steal from the heart.
~ Aberjhani
The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional democracy as they were on employing Black culture to 'vindicate' Black people.
~ Aberjhani
Whatever grace might 'trickle down' from the higher regions of a given society to the lower is no more essential than that which rises and converges from the opposite direction.
~ Aberjhani
The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
~ Abigail Adams
I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me -- to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
~ Abigail Adams
Why, my good man, thou hast the curiosity of a girl. Who could have believed, that only a slight hint would have set thy imagination agog in such a manner. And a fine encouragement I have to unravel the mystery as thou callest it. Nothing less, truly, than to be told something to my disadvantage. What an excellent reward that will be! In what court of justice didst thou learn that equity?
~ Abigail Adams
I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion.
~ Abigail Adams