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"Delay in justice is injustice"
Walter Savage Landor, Poet
"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline"
Michel Foucault, Historian
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land"
Jack Kerouac, Novelist
"So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow"
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge
"The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime"
Bobby Scott, Politician
"There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat"
Lillian Hellman, Dramatist
"They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other"
Joseph Howe, Politician
"Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it"
Joseph Howe, Politician
"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is"
Jose Saramago, Writer
"Law and order are the medicine of the body politic, and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered"
B. R. Ambedkar, Politician
"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government"
Al Gore, Vice President
"The eyes of all future generations are upon you, and if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you"
Greta Thunberg, Environmentalist
"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist
"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food"
Elias Canetti, Author
"Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind"
Norman Borlaug, Scientist
"People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands"
Abbe Pierre, Priest
"Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man"
Johnnie Cochran, Lawyer
"When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world"
Islom Karimov, Statesman
"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions"
John Boyd Orr, Politician
"I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate"
Joey Skaggs, Celebrity
"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there, and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad, he would be a United States Senator"
Mary Harris Jones, Activist
"Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse"
Cornel West, Educator
"Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital"
Angela Davis, Activist
"Justice in the extreme is often unjust"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
"There is this concept of politics as a dirty game"
Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician
"National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government"
Richard Perle, Public Servant
"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens"
Emanuel Tanay, Professor
"The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people"
Dalton Trumbo, Novelist
"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws"
Andrew Johnson, President
"The big tyrants never face justice"
George Galloway, Politician
"Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican"
Michael Moore, Activist
"America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards - flow in one direction: up"
Bill Moyers, Journalist
"Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer?"
Pat Brown, Entertainer
"It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. reform with teeth"
Mike Pence, Politician
"Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security"
J. D. Hayworth, Politician
"While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught"
Pat Brown, Entertainer
"We have tried you, citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
"Peace without justice is tyranny"
William Allen White, Editor
"There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart"
Keith Miller, Author
"People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?"
Linda Tripp, Celebrity
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