Quotes About Justice

The shepherd drives the wolf19 from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially if the sheep was a black one.

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

America will never be whole as long as the right to life granted by our Creator is denied to the unborn.

Big Cabinet meeting on our program through Justice dept. to wipe out legal discriminations against women. We've changed 27 laws, have 60 more in process & today approved some more.

Throughout my life, I guess there's been one thing that's troubled me more than any other: the abuse of people and the theft of their democratic rights, whether by a totalitarian government, an employer, or anyone else. I probably got it from my father; Jack never bristled more than when he thought working people were being exploited.

It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones.

Among the things he passed on to me were the belief that all men and women, regardless of their color or religion, are created equal and that individuals determine their own destiny; that is, it's largely their own ambition and hard work that determine their fate in life.

Por eso sus obras policiacas (setenta y nueve novelas, diecinueve piezas de teatro) son mundos circulares perfectamente explicables, juegos matemáticos para alivio no sólo de la cabeza sino del corazón, universos previsibles en donde el bien y el mal ocupan lugares prefijados.

Me considero feminista o, por mejor decir, antisexista, porque la palabra feminista tiene un contenido semántico equívoco: parece oponerse al machismo y sugerir, por tanto, una supremacía de la mujer sobre el hombre, cuando el grueso de las corrientes feministas no sólo no aspiran a eso, sino que reivindican justamente lo contrario: que nadie resulte supeditado a nadie en razón de su sexo, que el hecho de haber nacido hombres o mujeres no nos encierre en un estereotipo

Women have always fought not just for survival, but for the meaning of the struggle - now, they are organizing, grouping and pushing forward, not merely for new definitions, but for the right to define.

I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.

I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I'm still going through the motions.

That isn't your real motivation. I know your type. You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit it?" "I have a secret passion for mercy," I said. "But justice is what keeps happening to people.

The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

The affirmation of democracy requires the denial of colonialism, but denying it does not make it go away.

I cannot let things remain as they are, because then I would not be free. If I cease to act because I fear the future, then I create a worse enslavement for myself. That much I know. While my people are not free, I am not free. If the freedom and justice I seek loose destruction upon the earth, then I accept that responsibility, but it seems to me that the real responsibility must be borne by those who keep me from my freedom. I must act!

What greater good could there be in a man's life than to lift the oppression that destroys them, what greater honor is there?

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18

It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?' Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.