Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines, which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"It is only losers that are prosecuted"

George Galloway, Politician

"The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives"

Robert Reich, Economist

"I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out"

Clare Short, Politician

"I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"I mean, enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal"

Clare Short, Politician

"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing"

Edward Norton, Actor

"There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence"

Afrika Bambaataa, Musician

"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre"

Dick Gregory, Comedian

"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens"

Martin Van Buren, President

"The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations"

Martin Van Buren, President

"It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment"

Martin Van Buren, President

"You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country"

Alan K. Simpson, Politician

"The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant"

Martin Van Buren, President

"I don't think I'm a criminal, number one"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes, but that does not make revolution a crime"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"The path we have chosen is constitutional"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society"

Robert Owen, Writer

"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush"

George Galloway, Politician

"It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury"

George Galloway, Politician

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