Quotes About Justice

Buck learned this the hard way. In 1911, when a client's case pending in Shreveport, Louisiana, was called, Buck stood as a signal to the judge that he was present and ready to proceed. In disbelief, the presiding judge asked my father why he was standing. When Buck made the simple reply that he was representing his client in the case, the judge retorted that no "nigger" represented anyone in his court. With that pronouncement, my father was ordered to vacate the courtroom.

He who is less than just is less than man.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all.

I spent years," he told me, "studying the phenomenon of love." "And I spend years studying the phenomenon of justice." "At base, we spend years studying the same thing.

This system of discrimination, an inculcated double standard, may vary in content from culture to culture, but it is always unjust. There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind of justice - equal justice for all. To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

affirmative action,

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement, prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.

An attempt is already underway to revise history-to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

What harm is done by that commonplace word? What distinctions will not, cannot be drawn where enemy holds sway? Is the concept "enemy" the enemy of clear thought, therefore of justice? What is gained by its invocation? Perhaps as important, what is lost?

Renard was obliged to report ruefully to his master that the laws of England were so unsatisfactory that it was impossible to have people executed unless they had previously been proved guilty.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

Once, he reminded himself, I studied hard to learn to save lives. Now I must educate myself in how to take one.

Y bien, ¿le gustaría el corredor de la muerte? Se lo merecía, decidió Jeffers. Estupidez en Primer Grado.

Revenge serves to cleanse the heart and soul. It has been around since the first caveman climbed down out of a tree and bashed his brother over the head for some slight of honor.

El homicidio en primer grado no prescribe. La venganza tampoco. —Lo miró—. Supongo que parezco obsesiva, pero lo llevo en la sangre.

Ojo por ojo, la esencia de todas las venganzas.

Y si nos ofenden, ¿no nos vengamos? Si somos como vosotros en lo demás, también nos pareceremos a vosotros en esto. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, El mercader de Venecia