Quotes About Justice

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.