Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us'"

George Vancouver, Explorer

"But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"There is no truly global justice"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death"

Dick Durbin, Politician

"In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls"

Lenny Bruce, Comedian

"It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot or do not enforce the ones we have"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices"

Donna Brazile, Politician

"Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs"

George Soros, Businessman

"My country, right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right"

Carl Schurz, Revolutionary

"Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"Justice is the foundation of all good government"

Philip IV, Royalty

"No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons"

Jerry Weller, Politician

"More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty"

Jerry Weller, Politician

"But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

"The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see"

Bram Fischer, Lawyer

"As there is oppression of the majority, such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred"

Bram Fischer, Lawyer

"While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here"

Kit Bond, Politician

"Justice and judgment lie often a world apart"

Emmeline Pankhurst, Activist

"The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers"

George Pataki, Politician

"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them"

Anacharsis, Philosopher

"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty"

Nancy Reagan, First Lady

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong"

Mother Jones, Activist

"The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not"

John Linder, Politician

"In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed"

John Rawls, Educator

"A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws"

William Jackson

"The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man"

Nelson Algren, Novelist

"I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional"

Fred Korematsu, Celebrity

"As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves"

Johnny Ramone, Musician

"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy: hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

"The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror"

Peter Kropotkin, Revolutionary

"Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized"

Joseph Sobran, Activist

"This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be"

Julius Rosenberg, Criminal

"An indictment is not a conviction"

Howard Coble, Politician

"While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation"

Richard Jewell, Celebrity

"I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be"

Eliot Spitzer, Lawyer

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