Quotes About Justice

We are not causing you to "lose your job" by "giving" you an OVI. We didn't give it to you, it was earned.

meanings" of the Bible so many people point to in their attempts to oppress other people.

That has excluded those who are unable to fulfill that prescription due to their sexual orientation.

Test all statements (about God, theology, morality, faith, life) based on whether such statements would be credible in the kind of world in which two-year-olds have been thrown alive into pits of fire. I would hasten to add: the kind of world in which Jewish two-year-olds have been burned alive mainly by baptized Christians.24

Somewhere back on the moors, the visibility down to yards, I'd made that deal again. I catch him, stop him murdering mothers, orphaning children, then you give us one, just one.

It's not that there are no differences between human and non-human animals, any more than there are no differences between black people and white people, freeborn citizens and slaves, men and women, Jews and gentiles, gays or heterosexuals. The question is rather: are they morally relevant differences? This matters because morally catastrophic consequences can ensue when we latch on to a real but morally irrelevant difference between sentient beings.

There hadn't been a singular moment when she'd consciously decided to do all those things. From law school on, her course of righting wrongs and taking on injustices had evolved naturally. But, with age, she had come to understand the true motivation.

It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.

Hate the injustice not the unjust man, even though that shit is hard.

I am glad to see so many young people thinking about social justice. I have been woke since the doctor slapped my ass.

No one is asking police officers to beat white protestors like they beat us. We want them to not beat us like they don't beat them

Standing on someone you knocked down does not make you taller.

Young visitors to the museum ask me, "What was it like to live during the civil rights struggle?" I gently tell them that we are living during the civil rights struggle. -David Pilgrim

If we illegally detain Altek, the threat we face is to our way of life. We cannot selectively enforce our laws. To do so diminishes us as a civilization, and lowers us to the moral and ethical ranks of those who oppose us.

Telling the truth is always wrong if it threatens those for whom being wrong can never be true.

human beings we have the obligation to transcend law through mercy. If we all had to live by the law, we would all be condemned—all of us. It is only by showing compassion and mercy that we create a better world.

After Sarajevo, after Srebrenica, we know what "Never again!" means. "Never again'' simply means "Never again'' will Germans kill Jews in Europe in the 1940's. That is all it means.

Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness.

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

You don't have to be a college graduate to murder someone." "Thank you for making the jury aware of that, Lieutenant. I'm sure they had no idea.

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a few must die so the rest can live in peace, well, such is the ugly but unavoidable cost of living in a civilized society. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.

Everyone deserved a chance at a better life. And shame on his government for treating these people like criminals.

if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.