Quotes About Justice

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things. It is an outrage that there is an attitude that this is normal. This is not normal. We can't shrug our shoulders and say this is just a 'fact of life' in remote Australia.

There was never a shred, never a hint, never a possibility - not a remote, not a million-, not a billion-to-one possibility - I could have planted anything. Nor would I have a reason to.

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

When people were subjected to the impeachment and removal process, Aaron Burr was right there, looking out for their rights, even though it wasn't in his political interest to do so.

God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

If we can't remove a member of Congress who has been convicted of 10 felonies - including using his office for personal gain - we risk losing the faith and trust of the American people that we have.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.

Lawyers have rendered immense sacrifices for the restoration of democracy and free judiciary, and their role in this regard cannot be ignored.

We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like.

Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and healthy once again.

When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.

The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.

You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.

I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

Hate-filled people easily believe and repeat slanderous lies about innocent men.