Quotes About Justice

A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.

Jesus teaches us to put the needs of the poor ahead of our own, our needs, even if legitimate, will never be so urgent as those of the poor, who lack the necessities of life.

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

Race has no place in American life or law.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

16Then justice shall abide in the wilderness And righteousness shall dwell on the farm land. 17For the work of righteousness shall be peace, And the effect of righteousness, calm and confidence forever.

10(Hailg the just man, for he shall fare well; He shall eat the fruit of his works. 11Woe to the wicked man, for he shall fare ill; As his hands have dealt, so shall it be done to him.)

Without a sound legal system, a small group or even a single person can take control of an entire country.

Her actions remind me that, even under unbearable circumstances, one can still believe in justice. And above all, love.

Leniency for confession, severity for resistance! Hand

Except for a few who actually killed people, hardly any "revolutionaries" have been punished for what they did during the Cultural Revolution. Those

That doesn't mean that you should make up a story about something you never did!" Dad's voice grew still louder. "So what if I never listened to foreign radio broadcasts? They'll stop beating me if I confess to it, won't they? 'Leniency to those who confess, and severity to those who resist.' Look at my face, Lao Jiang. I can't stand it anymore… .

being critical is more than just doing critique, as social change that leads to equity also requires informing policy and practice through advocacy and activism

Paris courtroom where an

There have always been those who argued that the end justifies the means, that the means aren't really important," [King] said. "But we will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize the ends are not cut off from the means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in the process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.