Quotes About Justice

el castigo es producto de los propios errores

Pero cuando el pueblo son seis mil voces berreantes tratando de decidir sin rasero ni medida, cuando no hay reglas del juego y cada uno puede exigir lo que se le ocurra pero no tiene derecho a nada, cuando todo el mundo tiene poder sobre la vida de todo el mundo excepto sobre la suya propia...

lo correcto siempre funciona y siempre triunfa.

Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact—in defiance of facts.

Obrando con razón y justicia, sólo se podía llegar a un resultado.

No es preciso esforzarse en respetar a quien merece respeto; tan sólo se le paga lo que es debido.

In this way, she learned, Islamic law regulated the public sphere: if a couple committed adultery, they knew to keep their own betrayal private, so as to avoid gradually tearing away at the sanctity of marriage for others. It was inconceivable to her that a judge would have been able to meet the evidential standards required to correctly implement the punishment for adultery.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

What we have here is the first lesson in democracy: all individuals, no matter how contemptible, have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

And so began the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran versus The Great Gatsby

Criminals should not be tried. The trial of a criminal is against human rights. Human rights demand that we should have killed them in the first place when it became known that they were criminals," proclaimed Ayatollah Khomeini, responding to protests by international human rights organizations of the wave of executions that followed the revolution.

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country's founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.

Tamping down my emotions as the justice spoke to the audience, I looked over at a pair of handsome young Korean American boys—Sotomayor's adopted nephews—squirming in their Sunday best. They would take for granted that their aunt was on the U.S. Supreme Court, shaping the life of a nation—as would kids across the country. Which was fine. That's what progress looks like.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

Di Indonesia, kekuasaan diperlihatkan secara terang-terangan, tidak pandang bulu, terbuka, selalu segar dalam ingatan.

Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

God sees the world through the eyes of those most oppressed.

Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

These others, they have treated you badly. They are just too lazy to work for themselves.' And you know what he would say to me? He would say, 'How do you know that man does not need this small thing more than me?

That's what empathy does—it calls us all to task, the conservative and the liberal, the powerful and the powerless, the oppressed and the oppressor. We are all shaken out of our complacency. We are all forced beyond our limited vision.

Lincoln, and those buried at Gettysburg, remind us that we should pursue our own absolute truths only if we acknowledge that there may be a terrible price to pay.

When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.