Quotes About Justice

?wiat b?dzie lepszy, gdy kobiety przejm? w?adz?. Mam nadzieje, ?e daruj? nam krwaw? zemst?.

Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.

David Ponder, I say to you now that this is the first time in history that men have fought to set another man free. Most of us Maine boys have never even seen black skin on a man, but if it is true that all men are created equal, then we are fighting for each other. We are fighting because it is the right thing to do." The

To disengage from the profound needs of those caught in suffering is to reject the call to bear the image of God.

Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

I'm an admirer of everything Dr. Martin Luther King stood for, but I don't think he would have stood for this

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.

God sees your sin as a debt you can't pay. There is no point in asking you to. To think that being good will somehow makes you square with God would be like Allie promising to clean up her room after being confronted with the damage she did to my car. Cleaning up her room doesn't pay me back. It's a nice gesture, but it doesn't fix my car.

The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve--that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us what we don't deserve--we call that grace.

Don't good things come to good people?

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

Virtue is its own punishment.

Yes, dangerous: think a little, if you're capable of thought, and you'll see that it's safer to obey a law however stupid it may be than to act freely; because to act freely, unless you're as wicked as certain emperors, is to seek a just law; and if you make a mistake, you've taken the first step towards power, which is what destroys men.

On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head.

The rich can afford to be virtuous, the poor must shift as best they can.

You do not deserve this' he said. 'Who can say what I deserve or no?' I said. 'I've done nothing; but that may be sufficient reason for condemning me

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

should not enslave another. Slavery is an awful business.