Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office, that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be"

Julius Rosenberg, Criminal

"An indictment is not a conviction"

Howard Coble, Politician

"While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation"

Richard Jewell, Celebrity

Richard Jewell

"I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be"

Eliot Spitzer, Lawyer

"I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train"

Ronald Biggs, Celebrity

Ronald Biggs

"Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"Justice deferred is justice denied"

Diane Watson, Politician

"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice"

Henry Louis Gates, Critic

"Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them"

Georg Henrik von Wright, Philosopher

"From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law"

Leon Jaworski, Public Servant

"I've been waiting 13 years for justice"

Curtis Sliwa, Radio host

Curtis Sliwa

"The long, forensic interview really matters"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"Hang 'em first, try 'em later"

Roy Bean, Judge

"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion"

Carrie Chapman Catt, Activist

"Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why"

Sidney Hillman, Activist

"It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit"

Michael Newdow, Lawyer

"For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do"

George Linnaeus Banks, Writer

"It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million!"

Al Jardine, Musician

Al Jardine

"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows"

Albert Maltz, Author

"So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit, who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration"

Chuck Zito, Celebrity

Chuck Zito

"The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"In a just cause, the weak will beat the strong"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"There is a point at which even justice does injury"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Crime associated with our border is a serious threat to the general welfare of real citizens, and after all, isn't it the general welfare of citizens that the Constitution calls upon government to promote?"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Every time I plant a seed, he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice?"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"A riot is the language of the unheard"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

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