Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages"

Matt Gonzalez, Politician

"Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation"

Matt Gonzalez, Politician

"Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever"

Ronnie James Dio, Musician

"If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"As a society, we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it"

Matt Gonzalez, Politician

"I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future"

Howard Baker, Statesman

"Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated"

Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady

"Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity"

Nelson DeMille, Author

"Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America"

Warren E. Burger, Judge

"When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind"

Tom Scholz, Musician

"Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"The FBI has always supported big business and big government"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"God has always been hard on the poor"

Jean-Paul Marat, Politician

"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat, or Independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change"

Francine Busby, Politician

"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

""Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash"

Karl Rove, Politician

"I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone"

Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity

"Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously"

Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity

"I have great faith in the jury system"

Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity

"What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

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