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Quotes About Justice

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.
~ Derek Bok
The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
~ Desmond Tutu
Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
~ Desmond Tutu
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
~ Dionne Warwick
Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
~ Clancy Brown
No court can make time stand still.
~ Felix Frankfurter
You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.
~ Rod Coronado
There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.
~ Ron Paul
I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.
~ Sean Patrick Flanery
The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.
~ Shane Claiborne
Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.
~ Shirin Ebadi
I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I'm like, "Let me marry a feminist, let's do this thing." It's about time men should show up and say, "Yes, she should have access to whatever she needs."
~ Sophia Bush
I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.
~ Steve King
The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.
~ Tennessee Celeste Claflin
This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.
~ Terry Pratchett
It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.
~ Toby Keith
I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.
~ Tony Campolo
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
~ Walter Ulbricht
One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.
~ Wayne LaPierre
Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.
~ Will Smith
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
~ William Shakespeare