Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"As a member of this court, I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"The taxpayers deserve accountability"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"The possessions of the rich are stolen property"

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Economist

"Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power"

Oliver Stone, Director

"Justice is the sum of all moral duty"

William Godwin, Writer

"I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage, work out their own salvation"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I abide where there is a fight against wrong"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office"

Tom Allen, Politician

"In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden"

Tom Allen, Politician

"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Not all the coal that is dug warms the world"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"Common sense often makes good law"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals"

Charles E. Trevelyan

"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"Success in crime always invites to worse deeds"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

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