Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause"

David Talbot, Journalist

"For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"When men make themselves into brutes, it is just to treat them like brutes"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

"First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up, from our people"

Howard Dean, Politician

"The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward"

Jack Layton, Politician

"We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people"

Paul Castellano, Criminal

"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else"

Bono, Musician

"We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics"

Kate Millett, Activist

"Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"It is not secret here in Congress, we have not had the discipline in many instances, to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now, to stop this, I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand"

David Talbot, Journalist

"In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle"

Howard Dean, Politician

"A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything"

David Talbot, Journalist

"Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do"

Howard Dean, Politician

"The left has lost the common touch"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team"

Al Franken, Comedian

"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"Power ought to serve as a check to power"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons"

Richard Wright, Novelist

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