Quotes About Justice

The Special Forces motto was "De Oppresso Liber," not "Libre." Which meant "To liberate the oppressed.

Cecil reached for Dave, but Dave stepped back. "Dave, why are you doing this? You're not getting paid. Lovejoy called you off the case. You want the truth? You're compulsive. You can't leave it alone. You're like Adam Streeter, you know that? You live for danger." "I live for justice," Dave said. "Justice is a dream," Cecil scoffed, "a romantic ideal. Who the fuck gets justice in this life?(...)

Justice is the truth in action.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty

We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

Qué haríamos con dos millones (si los tuviéramos)», explica la diferencia entre los filántropos y los cristianos: «Los filántropos se los darían a los pobres que se lo merecieran, y los cristianos, a los pobres que no lo merecieran; porque si los cristianos fueran verdaderos cristianos, lo primero que pensarían es que ellos mismos constituían un ejemplo de ricos que no merecían serlo»

ceases to be merciful, no matter what sins have been conv mitted.

There is never a time when a president can act to stop a tragedy from occurring without being held politically accountable one way or the other. If he does it and fails, he's wrong. If he does it and succeeds, he was never right because it didn't happen. If we go in and stop an act of genocide, we can't prove what we stopped.

I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.

I, too, believe there are natural rights that predate any written political or legal documents; we have these rights merely because we're children of God.

A convicted felon who had strong family ties, a stake in the community, and an education might get probation, while a man who had few family ties, little stake in the community, and little education might draw a ten-year sentence for the same crime.

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.

If I find the cat who did this," Brambleclaw growled softly, "they will regret taking the life of a warrior and my Clanmate.

Goldenflower had padded away, Fireheart stepped forward and leaned down to lick Runningwind's dull pelt. "I will avenge your death," he promised softly.

will avenge your death," he promised softly.

You can't always do the right thing. No matter how much you want to.

But I blame you," he growled through gritted teeth. "You killed my father!

I have one weapon," Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just where to grab hold of it." "What weapon is that?" Della Street asked. "The truth," Mason said.

At the end of this journey, it seems to me that reconciling the long shadows cast by the uneasy past may ultimately depend on elements so basic that they bring to mind a simple Slav proverb I once came across and never forgot: Eat bread and salt and speak the truth. They are the recovery of fact, public accountability and the instituting of fair trials of one sort or another, to help mark ends and beginnings and to return the moral compass as close to the centre as possible.

There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.

None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

Now, I have a new quest. A far more important one." "And that is?" "Revenge.

Somebody set up us the bomb,' pal," he quoted. "Now it's time to take off every zig for great justice.