Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods"

James Larkin, Activist

"WikiLeaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform"

Julian Assange, Activist

"The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck"

Adam Clayton, Musician

"When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason, my man,' he said, 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'"

Anthony Holden, Journalist

"Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit"

Algernon Sydney, Politician

"And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases"

George Combe, Educator

"Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values"

Edward Levi, Public Servant

"I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done"

Jack Ruby, Criminal

"Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice"

Mike DeWine, Politician

"We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes"

J. Irwin Miller, Businessman

"The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on"

John Sherman Cooper, Politician

"Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"Any political system can commit mistakes, and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America"

Charles Edward Merriam, Educator

"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice"

Henry Louis Gates, Critic

"Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries"

Charles Grassley, Politician

"Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars"

Carrie P. Meek, Politician

"I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile"

Pope Gregory VII, Clergyman

"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them"

James F. Byrnes, Politician

"Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation"

Charles Ruff, Lawyer

"The long, forensic interview really matters"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday"

Sam Sheppard, Scientist

"I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment, and when the court decides, it is the law of the land"

Robert Menendez, Politician

"You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for"

Elizabeth Warren, Public Servant

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law"

David Dinkins, Politician

"The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society"

Irving R. Kaufman, Judge

"It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things, including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption"

Darrell Issa, Politician

"There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party"

John Hall

"Insults are the business of the court"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world"

Ginger Baker, Musician

"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict"

Witold Pilecki, Soldier

"Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there"

Lance Ito, Judge

"Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city"

George Moscone, Politician

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