Quotes About Justice

Attack on Terror: The FBI Versus the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.

The rule of law is the essence of freedom.

The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.

It is not enough for a Christian to condemn evil, cowardice, lies, and use of force, hatred, and oppression. He must at all times be a witness to and defender of justice, goodness, truth, freedom, and love. He must never tire of claiming these values as a right both for himself and others.

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders." ( Larry King Live , May 11, 2009)

If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law!

If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it's against the law. If we're not going to be a country that stand's for the rule of law, when it's convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for.

Of justice you will find none.... To judge is evil. To mete justice, more appalling still. Act from compassion and you will do better than to devise any code or facade of justice.

No one must ever fancy another human being so much more evil than themselves that killing was justified.

Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.

Today the United States has the most unequal society of all developed nations.

An eye for an eye ... the whole world goes blind" , spoken by Nathan

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Only when we prove that international law and the human rights of all mankind are greater than any villain can we vanquish evil.