Quotes About Justice

I won't pay a guy money that I don't think he deserves.

I try not to make personal attacks on people - unless they're deserving.

Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

When we complain to Egypt's Western allies about whichever autocrat is in power, we are asked, 'But who is the alternative?' It is a question designed to frustrate.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

If all the people of this country, black and white alike, are to enter fully into our national story, as I desperately hope they will, they must do so on terms of reciprocity.

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

The Knesset has balances that will not allow it to pass legislation that would destroy democracy from within.

Whenever evil is destroyed people are happy. Then what's wrong in depicting positive violence?

I will end the lawlessness that's destroying our environment. I will take polluters to court, not to lunch.

Legal arguments, particularly when they reach the highest court in the land, can be detached from daily life.

But the problem is that you cannot just admit to something you haven't done; you need to deliver the details, which you can't when you haven't done anything. It's not just, Yes, I did!' No, it doesn't work that way: you have to make up a complete story that makes sense to the dumbest dummies.

My nana was a detective; my nana was a great cop. You also have bad cops that were bullied in school or whatever and think that they have power, and that makes other cops look bad.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

I defend non-criminal detention.

One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.

The color of my skin should not determine whether I live or die.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

It's detrimental not to support marriage equality, even just on a financial level.