Quotes About Justice

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.

I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

The time is always right to do right

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.

What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison, which is what happens about 70% of the time.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.

Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.