Quotes About Justice

Mataria por muito poucas coisas, mas mataria quem fizesse mal a um cão. Sem qualquer remorso, com as minhas próprias mãos. -- Entrevista ao Expresso, publicada em 29/01/2021 na Edição nº 2518 da Revista

Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

Lo ven? Él mismo confiesa.¿Qué esperamos para apalearlos? ?¡Alto! Si ha habido un crimen no va a borrarse con otro crimen.

MIRANDA: Tengo hijos sin tierra. Tengo tierra sin hijos. Quiero la tierra y los hijos reunidos. Quiero los colores reunidos. Eso es Colombeia. TODOS: ¿Qué es Colombeia? MIRANDA: Esto es Colombeia. Para todos luz. Para todos ley. Para todos fe. Para todos paz. Para todos pan. Callad ahora. Es la noche de irme. Es la noche de salir.

Use your anger for good. Anger to people is like gas to the automobile - it fuels you to move forward and get to a better place. Without it, we would not be motivated to rise to a challenge. It is an energy that compels us to define what is just and unjust.

lesson in that for us in the media: if, instead of, or in addition to focusing so much on lofty constitutional issues being debated in the Supreme Court, we were to depute our correspondents once a month on a randomly selected day to a randomly selected local court, and report what happened in that court during that day—that would give readers and viewers a so much truer picture of the state of justice in our country. And may even spur some improvements.

Some things come with their own punishments.

Masyarakat yang sebagian anggotanya mengeksploitasi sebagian anggota lainnya yang lemah dan tertindas tidak dapat disebut sebagai masyarakat Islam (Islamic society)

However, my argument assumes that there is a relationship between God and God's word; thus, my 'theological solution' to unjust interpretations is to be more scrupulous in aligning our readings of God's word with our conceptions of God so as to avoid attributing injustice to God.

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples' freedom as well.

Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren't planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government's genocidal war against Black and Third World people.

We do not have the right in the name of social justice to bore anyone to death.

They went up against white mobs, water hoses, vicious dogs, the Ku Klux Klan, trigger-happy nightstick-wielding police, armed only with their belief in justice and their desire for freedom.

As far as i was concerned, the police in the Black communities were nothing but a foreign, occupying army, beating, torturing, and murdering people at whim and without restraint. I despise violence, but i despise it even more when it's one-sided and used to oppress and repress poor people.

The world, in spite of oppression, is a beautiful place.

When the judge learned i was sick and unable to come to kourt, he had a fit. He acted like i had gotten sick just to delay the trial.

It was plain to me that we couldn't look to the kourts for freedom and justice anymore than we could expect to gain our liberation by participating in the u.s. political system, and it was pure fantasy to think we could gain them by begging. The only alternative left was to fight for them, and we are going to have to fight like any other people who have fought for liberation.

Any people seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well

It was also clear to me that without a truly internationalist component nationalism was reactionary. There was nothing revolutionary about nationalism by itself—Hitler and Mussolini were nationalists. Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples' freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people.

The panel was selected from the voting rolls, and, since candidates running for office seldom represent the interests of Black and poor people, Blacks and the poor don't vote. But failing to vote means they don't sit on juries.

Angela Davis was running for her life. They had hooked her up with Jonathan Jackson, charged her with kidnapping and murder at the kourthouse, even though she was nowhere on the set.

But there is no place a defendant in a criminal trial can go to find "experts" in sciences commonly known as "police sciences." The police can virtually write up a report saying anything they want, and there is no way of refuting it. And there have been cases where "experts" have been double agents: working for a defendant while secretly working with the prosecutor.

Every time we went to kourt the judge made a point of reading into the record that i had refused to stand up for him. He was one of those racist white dogs who really believed he was massa.