Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong"

Powell Clayton, Politician

"And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres"

Charles Evers, Activist

"You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest"

Carrie P. Meek, Politician

"We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well"

Carrie P. Meek, Politician

"These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down"

Murray Kempton, Journalist

"We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that"

David Dinkins, Politician

"Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out"

Dashiell Hammett, Author

"I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone"

Silvan Shalom, Politician

"You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell"

Carrie P. Meek, Politician

"We're going to see fugitives and felons eventually being able to get guns much more easily"

Sarah Brady, Activist

"If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information"

John Yoo, Educator

"A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it"

Andrew Eldritch, Musician

"The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a "public purpose""

Michael Kinsley, Journalist

"The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"Probably, I understand very much the people who rise against injustice"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Diplomat

"The Bureau doesn't have any secret files"

W. Mark Felt, Public Servant

"There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution"

Van Jones, Activist

"I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people"

William Kidd, Explorer

"Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism"

Michael Kinsley, Journalist

"All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer"

Ishmael Reed, Poet

"The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers, we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"I expect we will become more demanding as citizens"

Robert Anderson, Soldier

"I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago, when reform was last enacted"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived"

Robert Trout, Journalist

"I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California"

Gray Davis, Politician

"The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases"

Lance Ito, Judge

"If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public"

Lance Ito, Judge

"I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that"

Lance Ito, Judge

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