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Quotes About Justice

Rebels against her--that stem intractable sense Of that which no man can stomach and still be free, Writing: "When in the course of human events . . ." Writing it out so all the world could see Whence come the powers of all just governments. The tree of Liberty grew and changed and spread, But the seed was English.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Hiram dropped dead. Too bad, but at least he hadn't expired, or passed, or left this world, or gone to his maker, or even had a heart attack. He deserved a straightforward death.
~ Alice Elliott Dark
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
~ Alice Koller
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
~ Alice Paul
In Detroit we understand the phrase "Affirmative Action" a little different than they do in the rest of the world. In Detroit it means: Take a step, don't step back, don't talk, don't wait—act! Knock your brother upside his head and drag him through the water, but save his life. Affirmative action is a lifesaving dance.
~ Alice Randall
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
~ Alice Sebold
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
~ Alice Sebold
Those who betray others, lie and deceive, deserve each other.
~ Alice Thompson
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
~ Alice Walker
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
~ Alice Walker
Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
~ Alice Walker
We should not make disabled lives subject to debate
~ Alice Wong
Holy gets angry. So does this mean we need to buy ropes and start making whips? No. But perhaps we need to stop hiding safely behind hashtag campaigns and instead show up and speak out.
~ Alicia Britt Chole
Habrá alguna ciudad en el mundo que tenga un monumento reivindicatorio a la prostituta? ¿Un monumento rodeado de jardines y de tristeza, un monumento frente al cual las mujeres suspiren y los hombres se llenen de vergüenza?
~ Alicia Yánez Cossío
Gerechtigheid is één grote aanfluiting. - Alice
~ Alison Baird
The law is that the hungry must be fed, and the homeless must be housed, and the sick must be healed. That is the way of the Light." Maerad
~ Alison Croggon
The law is that the hungry must be fed, and the homeless must be housed, and the sick must be healed. That is the way of the Light.
~ Alison Croggon
I don't blame fraternity culture for Emily's death. I don't blame parties or alcohol or the detrimental influence of social media and online porn on Today's Youth. I blame her murderer. Period.
~ Alison Gaylin
They need to be punished to feel guilt, and then they're never punished, so they never do.
~ Alison Gaylin
I read the cheery caption, about how award-recipient Harris Blanchard "took a gap year, but is certainly making up for it!" So that's what they are calling it now—the time before and after he stood trial for the rape of my daughter. A gap year.
~ Alison Gaylin
She sighs heavily. "Not surprising. It'd be everywhere if they were rich white girls." Goes back to her keyboard. "Anyway … I hope they catch his sorry ass." "Yeah. Me
~ Alison Gaylin
If you're a karma person, then Ed and Natalie deserved nothing but sunshine and rainbows for the next hundred years. But all they got was enough happiness to know how awful it is to lose it.
~ Alison Gaylin
Make it right.
~ Alison Goodman
In this admirable country in which a spring without equal covers it with flowers and its light, men are suffering hunger and demanding justice. Albert Camus, 1958
~ Alistair Horne