Quotes About Justice

We need to not be afraid to step up and take a fight to the corruption that's in this world.

Giving children the sense that you always ought to speak up for what's right, even if it costs you something, that's something you can do.

Every day, lax sentencing costs lives.

I can't tell the people of India that we'll burden you with high costs because the West has polluted the world, now India will pay for it. Not acceptable to us.

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

We've got to pass legislation which will allow people to have access to competent counsel no matter who they are.

Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

No matter how superficially fair the judge is, he is still the complete autocrat in the courtroom, and he still comes from the ruling class.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.