Quotes About Justice

In creating this self-protective structure, Rockefeller could run Standard Oil while simultaneously sidestepping responsibility, erasing incriminating evidence, and avoiding contact with his victims.

When Grant read this, he was outraged at the shocking suggestion that he had subverted justice. He handed the letter to Bristow with a passionate admonition scrawled across it: "Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided—Be specially vigilant—or instruct those engaged in the prosecutions of fraud to be—against all who insinuate that they have high influence . . . to protect them.

As Rockefeller feared, the Duluth jury reached a verdict in favor of the Merritts, though it was overturned on appeal.

a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent

In 1870 he oversaw creation of the Justice Department, its first duty to bring thousands of anti-Klan indictments. By 1872 the monster had been slain, although its spirit resurfaced as the nation retreated from Reconstruction's lofty aims. Grant presided over the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave blacks the right to vote, and landmark civil rights legislation, including the 1875 act outlawing racial discrimination in public accommodations.

His whole soul was enlisted in the cause and in contending for the rights of the jury and a free press, he considered that he was establishing the surest refuge against oppression.

some thought she should have received much less.

The American Revolution had succeeded because it was "a free, regular and deliberate act of the nation" and had been conducted with "a spirit of justice and humanity." It was, in fact, a revolution written in parchment and defined by documents, petitions, and other forms of law.

To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove them into poverty, she wrote. From then on, people who came looking for a library card received one, regardless of whether their papers were in order.

can do something about crime. Not a lot, I admit, but something. Because crime, all crime, is irrational. It is opposed to the logic of life, and so it is evil. And that is why I became a cop.

If peace was really within reach wasn't it immoral to fail?

Bin Laden señalaba..«¿Cómo podéis pedirle a la gente que ahorre energía cuando todo el mundo puede ver vuestros espléndidos palacios iluminados noche y día? —preguntaba—. ¿No tenemos derecho a preguntaros, oh rey, adónde ha ido a parar todo el dinero? No os molestéis en responder: todos saben cuántos sobornos y comisiones han acabado en vuestros bolsillos.»

It's a feeling—I'm going to die anyway, so I might as well risk this virus that I can't see, to speak about the virus of systemic racism that I can.

The incredible women around the world who do stand up for justice can in fact transform the planet.

We don't teach them to fight fair, and we don't start a fight.

I have a knife. And I have a rule. Pull a knife on me, I break your arm.

This is why we need more women officers. For us it's enough to win. For you, the other guy has to know he lost.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.'" Alice

He said all that needs to happen for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing.

Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

My country, right or wrong. Which means nothing, unless you admit your country is wrong sometimes. Loving a country that was right all the time would be common sense, not patriotism.

What don't you need to do? she asked him. ... You don't need to solve all the world's problems, Joe. Only some of them. There are enough to go around. ... You've got the strength of two normal boys, she said. Then came my own personal question. What are you going to do with this strength? she asked me. I didn't answer. I never did. You're going to do the right thing, she said.

The problem with getting your rights abused was that somebody had to witness it for it to mean anything. Somebody had to see it happen.

I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty.