Quotes About Justice

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

Find something in your life worth fighting for

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

You should have died when I killed you.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

Blood for life. Life for life. Changeling justice.