Quotes About Justice

Wendell Phillips declared: "Only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.… Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.

Love cannot exist for long without the dimension of justice.

Religion does not own activism.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Y]ou are ... entrusted with the pursuit of that most extraordinary of crimes: the theft of a human life. You speak for the dead. You avenge those lost to the world.

If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?

you believe a little shithead like this is able to stay on the run for so long?" McLarney declares, returning from yet another unsuccessful turn-up of a Milligan hideout. "You shoot a guy, hey," the sergeant adds with a shrug. "You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it's time to admit you have a problem.

But the main reason you should read this is that I don't see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible things and you should get off scot free.

If we witness an act of discrimination but do not speak up or intervene, then we tacitly support it.

I never could stand racism or indifference to poverty. That doesn't make me a lefty ideologue. It makes me an ordinary American.

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.

In a series of rulings known as the Marshall Trilogy, the court affirmed the rights of the Cherokee and ruled the removal of Indians unlawful. Andrew Jackson did it anyway.

Any Indian or mixed-blood who shall pay or offer to pay any money or other valuable consideration to the friends or relatives of any Indian girl or woman, for the purpose of living or cohabiting with said girl or woman,

The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.

you got your just desserts

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

I said, "And then, when those all-American Joes get out and some of them fucking turn into monsters? What happens then?" Amy said, "Then we will once again err on the side of not letting people be murdered. You take the choice in front of you, and then you keep picking the non-murder choices as long as you can.

What is it with rich people thinking they can starve the poor into good behavior?

we will once again err on the side of not letting people be murdered . You take the choice in front of you. And then you keep picking the non-murder choice as long as you can.

Well, Amy figured you don't need more than five minutes on this planet to figure out that one thing we know about God—maybe the only thing—is that he favors those who act.

The truth was, I didn't feel sorry for Billy. He teased a dog and got his fingers bitten off. Fuck him. Fuck everybody.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.