Quotes About Justice

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it.

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

Restorative justice is more interested in relationships. A crime is not act against a rule, it's an act against a person. When you harm somebody, you owe it to them to make things right. By making things right, you begin to heal your relationship with the community. Our system is focused on blame and punishment and not on healing and learning. - Lauren Abramson (RJ Program in Baltimore, MD)

Studies show that more than 90 percent of juveniles who are interrogated by police don't wait to talk to a lawyer and don't understand the rights the police have read them.

Our system is focused on blame and punishment and not on healing and learning

RJ advocates say, is not an act against a rule, it's an act against a person. When you harm somebody, you owe it to them to make things right. By making things right, you begin to heal your relationship with the community.

Restorative Justice} allowed you two hold two things in your head at the same time...that's what community was, all those layers of understanding.

True freedom has its limits, which are the rights of others. God

two wrongs dont make a right

Black is bein' guilty until proven that you're innocent

Bellman nodded, smiling. "Even chance can bring justice?" "Exactly!" Grand Master said. "But it never hurts to nudge it in the right direction.

Arbitrary rule frightens people. Power tempered with justice is well loved." He shrugged. "It is a gamble, but I would much sooner trust the Four together, and in public, than any one of them alone, in private." Oh

I want justice for Bernie!

La fe es el combustible de una vida de justicia

La sabiduría es el camino que lleva a Dios. Está caracterizado por la justicia, la misericordia, el tacto, la humildad, la disciplina, el respeto a la autoridad, la "educabilidad" y la honestidad.

sabiduría es el camino que lleva a Dios. Está caracterizado por la justicia, la misericordia, el tacto, la humildad, la disciplina, el respeto a la autoridad, la "educabilidad" y la honestidad.

Over the long term you get what you deserve, and none of us like it when what we deserve is pain.

IF A MAJORITY IN EVERY CIVILIZED COUNTRY SO DESIRED, WE COULD, WITHIN 20 YEARS, ABOLISH ALL ABJECT POVERTY, QUITE HALF THE ILLNESS IN THE WORLD, THE WHOLE ECONOMIC SLAVERY WHICH BINDS DOWN NINE TENTHS OF OUR POPULATION; WE COULD FILL THE WORLD WITH BEAUTY AND JOY, AND SECURE THE REIGN OF UNIVERSAL PEACE.

It's no coincidence that social justice warriors are frequently out of shape, poorly dressed, and have messy hair, along with their overall disheveled appearance. If some dress for success, they dress for failure.

Ends matter, but so do means. It is a distinction long lost on the public—understandably so, given how accustomed it has become to Court intervention. But the justices themselves know better. They know their institution's history. They know that triumphalism hasn't always been the way. They just choose to step in anyway. They do because they can. It is what has made the Supreme Court the most dangerous branch.

When you've been falsely accused of serious crimes as often I have, you learn to recognize the oncoming inevitability of the next one.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.