logo

Quotes About Justice

God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.
~ Peter Kreeft
Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
~ John Grisham
Liberty plays an important role in justice, and there can be no justice without liberty, which is the power to do what one wills. But government exists first and foremost for the purpose of justice, which inclines the will to give each and all their due.
~ Michael J. Knowles
Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.
~ Peter T. King
The Ferguson Grand Jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown is a miscarriage of justice. It is a slap in the face to Americans nationwide who continue to hope and believe that justice will prevail.
~ Marcia Fudge
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner.
~ Robert P. McCulloch
There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end there. The law authorizes a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in certain situations. The law allows all people to use deadly force to defend themselves in certain situations.
~ Robert P. McCulloch
I do not believe that Darren Wilson should've been charged, but Brown should not have lost his life. Brown and Trayvon Martin should've gotten their butts kicked badly. They should've been handled physically, but they should not have been killed.
~ Niger Innis
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
~ Fred Hampton
They always win who side with God.
~ Frederick William Faber
I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.
~ Barack Obama
I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
~ Aeschylus
Win on your merit, not your skin color.
~ Tomi Lahren
As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.
~ Cesar Chavez
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
~ Jesse Jackson
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
~ Barack Obama
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
~ Thomas Sowell
If you are a referee, it's not easy because everyone wants to win, and so there will be cheating.
~ Rafael Benitez
Communism will win.
~ Slavoj Zizek
If I stop or moderate my voice, people who use or threaten violence against democracies would win. I will never let them win.
~ Geert Wilders
As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
~ Zubin Mehta