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Quotes About Justice

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way
~ Paris Hilton
I saw a lot when I was young. The first time I got arrested I was twelve years old.
~ Rakim
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
~ Tacitus
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
~ Ward Churchill
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
~ Wilkie Collins
The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.
~ William Rehnquist
The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.
~ Eric Schlosser
Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.
~ John Dryden
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.
~ Joseph Conrad
We're living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
~ Aisha Hinds
You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.
~ Arthur Goldberg
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
~ Assata Shakur
It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
~ Desmond Tutu
Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.
~ L. Todd Rose
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.
~ Mario Savio
Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.
~ Mark Twain
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
~ Mark Twain
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
~ Michael Pollan
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
~ Pierre Trudeau
We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.
~ Grace Napolitano