Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world"

Mary Chesnut, Author

"I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate"

Vincent Frank

"In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?"

Raul Grijalva, Politician

"For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation"

David Horowitz, Writer

"Even though I'm a leftist, I think the left eats its own"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it"

Ben Nelson, Politician

"Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today"

Billy Bragg, Musician

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong"

James Bryce, Diplomat

"There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it"

Saffron Burrows, Actress

"But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are"

John Cornyn, Politician

"The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution"

Ginny B. Waite

"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact"

John Rawls, Educator

"In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything"

Karen Morley, Actress

"Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today"

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate"

Tobe Hooper, Director

"Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world"

Tom Scholz, Musician

"Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"In the unrest of the masses, I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority"

Barber B. Conable, Jr., Politician

"A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty, and - at some point - finality of judgment"

Warren E. Burger, Judge

"They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country"

Tom Tancredo, Politician

"Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times"

Warren E. Burger, Judge

"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?"

Peter Kropotkin, Revolutionary

"From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis, there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

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