Quotes About Justice

learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.

You yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime.

The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust.

The hour of justice does not strike on the dials of this world.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. —Aristotle

And I learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.

Wharlest Jackson used to ask: 'How can we change the white man's heart? How can we make him see that we're all the same inside?

When drug dealers get killed—black or white—the public perception is that the victims simply got what was coming to them. When a young girl is raped and murdered—black or white—our knowledge of the primitive laws of attraction and male sexual dominance informs our response. But when middle-aged white people minding their own business are murdered in their home in the safest part of town, the fundamental order of Southern life is thrown out of balance.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. —GALATIANS 6:7

Where good people stand against evil, sooner or later fate demands a reckoning.

he committed such a heinous act, would have owned up to it and taken his punishment like a man, as the archaic phrase goes. That may be a quaint and sexist notion these days, but some of what is best about the South is archaic. The tragedy is that it should be so.

Justice is God's business. Nothing ever balances out equal in this world. Only in Heaven.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

And the black politicians…my God. I've watched black aldermen do patently illegal things and then brag about it. They don't care whether something is legal or not." "White politicians abused the system for years, Caitlin. They just did it in a more subtle way." "I know that. But is that an excuse for blacks to repeat the abuses of the old system? The system Martin Luther King and Malcolm X died to dismantle?

There have been times I would have given anything for such faith, for the belief that divine justice exists somewhere in the universe. Facing Sarah's death without it was an existential baptism of fire. The comfort that belief in an afterlife can provide was obvious in the hospital waiting rooms and chemo wards, where

No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a comin'. —Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger

I'm not sure Shad's worried about that. You said it yourself, his concern is the special election. That means making good on his promise to make the system equal, i.e., to nail a rich white man. That's what will get Shad a unified black vote. I expect Judge Minor to move as fast as legally possible.

Women's rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated.

Remember what Confucius say: 'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Evan needed to get food, and then he had people to kill.

Like John Kennedy said, though, 'Forgive thy enemies but remember their names.

The young man from Seabeck who'd been in and out of the county jail so often he thought he'd be able to leave some belongings behind for his next stretch of incarceration.

The Raymond Torture Killings

An Alford plea can be rather perplexing; it's a plea that allows the defendant to plead guilty yet assert innocence at the same time. It's also a plea that allows the defense and the prosecution to save face—and money—by avoiding going to a trial that would almost surely result in a conviction.