Quotes About Justice

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

It's time for the Americans to say they're going to live up to their obligations and return the dollars that have been illegally taken from Canadians.

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.

What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

I read Butterfly's Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.

Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.