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Quotes About Justice

Billy has to fight for peace. It's going to take a lot of courage to stand up against this war. Maybe peace is just as brave" -Reenie Kelly
~ Sheila O'Connor
a woman's got as much right -and more cause- to get drunk than any man
~ Shelagh Delaney
You will be far more likely to receive racial preferences than to suffer racial discrimination.
~ Shelby Steele
It left us pleading with the government, not for freedom, which we had already won, but for "programs" and "preferences" that would be a ladder to full equality.
~ Shelby Steele
It is also the formula that keeps black America underdeveloped even as we enjoy new freedom and a proliferation of opportunity. No worse fate could befall a group emerging from oppression than to find itself gripped by a militancy that sees justice in making others responsible for its advancement.
~ Shelby Steele
the fact is that we blacks are free.
~ Shelby Steele
Sheldon Siegel
~ Bryant exudes
Yeah. If everything else fails, we'll use the S-O-D-D-I defense." "SODDI?" Pete asks. "Some Other Dude Did It. We need to give the jury a choice.
~ Sheldon Siegel
You do know I'm the one person who can shoot you and make it look like justifiable homicide?
~ Shelly Laurenston
Mace growled and wondered how much prison time a man would do for tossing his sister into the East River.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
~ Nelson Mandela
I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.
~ Nelson Mandela
It's time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves.
~ Patrick Leahy
In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.
~ Patrick Leahy
I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.
~ Paul Levine
You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.
~ Paul Stookey
I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.
~ Peter Beinart
I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.
~ Queen Noor of Jordan
Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out.
~ Richard Branson
Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties
~ Elizabeth Blair Lee
It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.
~ George Herbert
Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is.
~ George W. Bush