Quotes About Justice

Chrystul Kizer, at seventeen a survivor of sex trafficking and abuse, was charged with first degree intentional homicide. LadyKathryn Williams-Julien of New York State killed her husband during an act of domestic violence and was charged with his murder.

There is troubling evidence that dismissal on the grounds of self-defense is far more common for men than women.

Due to the system of mandatory cash bail, people in jails across the US have not yet been convicted of a crime, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. Even the innocent might remain in jail for days, weeks, or even years simply because they cannot afford their bail.

We die when we refuse to stand up for justice.

Life and death do not wait for legal action. —Daphne du Maurier

there's even a word—testilying—for the perjured testimony that an officer gives in court when he's covering up for his own or another officer's misconduct during an investigation.

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.

Yet we ought to kill someone!' said the gentleman, immediately reverting to his former subject. 'I have been quite out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.

If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluated not from the standpoint of "eternal justice" or some other preconceived idea, as is not infrequently done by historians, but from the standpoint of the conditions which gave rise to that system or that social movement and with which they are connected.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces.

Burglars and thieves sometimes complained that they only committed crimes against property, not like muggers and rapists. Muggers and rapists never faulted policemen at all, which caused the choirboys to comment that as a rule muggers and rapists were the most appreciative people they contacted.

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

Attainder was

the granting of the right to bail, and the prevention of the intimidation of juries.' 'Was that Richard's Parliament?

For you have sown the wind, and you shall reap the whirlwind

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

Look, Paul. I appreciate what you're telling me, but I gave Jake my word. Not to mention the fact, he'd throw my ass in jail if he found out I tried to go around him." "He wouldn't, you know," he said. "Jake's a pussycat." Yeah, just a big old saber-toothed tiger.

They will rue the day," Tucker growled.

The first to speak in court sounds right—until the cross-examination begins" (Proverbs 18:17).

God's laws tell us right from wrong and how we are to treat others. As the founding fathers established a new democracy in America, they did so on the premise that humanity was fallen and thus there was a need for a rule of law to curb our natural tendencies to follow our own wants and lusts even to the detriment of others.

Well-spoken white people from prominent families came out on top in our broken court system. It wasn't fair, but it was true.

Burr had to know I understood what I had done. I knew you couldn't kill only the pieces that needed killing, and leave the pretty parts whole.