Quotes About Justice

Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return...

All of us are born how we are born and suffer how we suffer and if even God can't make us equal who are we to think our laws can?

However, the outcome is inconsistent with the general principle that people should not be punished in the absence of culpability, since one who acts on the basis of a reasonable mistake of law lacks moral blameworthiness.

The "social justice" movement is not at all about social justice, but about relentlessly bullying anyone who does not subscribe to their Stalinist ideology.

The irony of all this is that God of perfect justice is both the one for whom we long and the one whom we dread. We long for someone to set things right, to punish those who terrorize, molest, kills and enslave the innocent... we want a judge with total power and piercing commitment to righteousness. But when his eyes turn on us, we realize that we too, are guilty. We, too, deserve his judgement.

Am I not a man and a brother?

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning—We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

We charge the American Government with genocide. In clear, unequivocal terms, we charge the American government with genocide against the captive Black people in America who are perpetually under siege.

Now in speaking like this, it doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. And if the white man doesn't want us to be anti-him, let him stop oppressing and exploiting and degrading us.

Some people," Aunt Emily answered sharply, "are so busy seeing all sides of every issue that they neutralize concern and prevent necessary action. There's no strength in seeing all sides unless you can act where real measurable injustice exists. A lot of academic talk just immobilizes the oppressed and maintains oppressors in their positions of power.

And isn't it amazing that suicide is illegal when society is so indifferent to human life?

Leniency toward criminals contrasted starkly with severity toward the law-abiding citizen's right to defend himself or herself.

To protect his life and to prevent any felony, an Englishman was free to inflict even a mortal wound on a would-be felon.

a person would need more than one good kick to stop a murderer.

Pensó que un Dios probable tendría que sustituir el imaginado infierno general y llameante por pequeños infiernos individuales.A cada uno el suyo, según una divina justicia y los méritos hechos

Era la guerra de una generación desprevenida; y su mayor peligro radicaba precisamente en la fe intacta de los pueblos en la justicia unilateral de su causa

rojo era símbolo de libertad, caridad y salud, y el amarillo de justicia, virtud y clemencia.

El olvido era lo único democrático en Colombia: los cubría todos, a los buenos y a los malos, a los asesinos y a los héroes como la nieve en el cuento de Joyce, cayendo sobre todos por igual.

El reino de los cielos debe existir por los pobres de espíritu o la única ley de la vida es la injusticia.