Quotes About Justice

If it was the Border Patrol's job to apprehend lawbreakers, it was equally their duty to save the lost and the dying.

Dizer que a minha liberdade termina onde começa a liberdade do outro é muito bonito. Mas e se a liberdade foi mal distribuída e o meu vizinho tem um latifúndio de liberdade enquanto a minha é um quintal de liberdade, liberdade mesmo que tadinha? Não é feio sugerir um reestudo da divisão.

Dizem que a lei existe para contrariar a natureza. Se o Homem sempre seguisse seus instintos naturais e matasse, roubasse e passasse a mão na bunda do próximo sem qualquer punição, onde estaríamos? No Brasil, acertou.

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.

Son, when I appoint a nigger to the bench, I want everybody to know he's a nigger. [Said to an aide in 1965 regarding the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as associate justice of the Supreme Court]

This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

I'm going to have to bring up the nigger bill again. [Said to a southern U.S. Senator upon the occasion of the Republicans re-introducing the Civil Right Act of 1957, according to LBJ's Special Counsel Harry McPherson.]

That it's possible to be against the circus, not because you're afraid to die there, but because it's wicked and wrong. ~Aurelia, 152

The point is, you should have stayed right where you were and let us handle this. Now we're going to have to tie up your uncle and put him in one of the cells or something until we sort out everything and can prove your innocence.

To her mind, a good cop was worth their weight in gold, but every profession had their bad apples, and bad cops could do more damage than your average dirtbag criminal. She felt no regret or guilt over what she did.

All crimes," she remembered him advising, "are crimes against continuity—continuity of life, continuity of ownership, systems continuity.

If we kill those who are evil, we will become evil ourselves; we will be killers. If we attempt to deal with evil by destroying it, we will also end up destroying ourselves, spiritually if not physically. Evil can be defeated by goodness. Evil can be conquered only by love. We must somehow be both tolerant and intolerant, accepting and demanding, strict and flexible. An almost godlike compassion is required.

God is just like Jesus – exactly like him!

Any injury we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy

The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.

But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers.

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody, and you're stuck with it.

The rain is raining all around," Uncle Douglas quoted, "It rains on both the just and the unjust fellow. But more, it seems on the just than on the unjust, For the unjust hath the just's umbrella.

There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.

You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families." Richard said, "There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thing. Him I will follow.

What else is the electric chair or lethal injection than human sacrifice?

Theron thought he could solve problems by brushing them aside as though they didn't exist. But they do exist, they still exist, and unless responsible people do something about them, our land is in for fresh disaster, brother against brother, black against white.

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.