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Justice Quotes
"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."
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"It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case."
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"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom."
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"Justice is incidental to law and order."
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"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."
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"We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars."
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"I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done."
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"A free nation is built on the principles of justice, equality, and the pursuit of shared aspirations."
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"This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be. It is this false moneyer with his gravers and burins who seeks favor with the judge and he is at contriving from cold slag brute in the crucible a face that will pass, an image that will render this residual specie current in the markets where men barter. Of this is the judge judge and the night does not end."
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"People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment."
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"You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process."
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"Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."
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"Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines."
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"When the law fails to serve us, we must serve as the law."
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"When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications."
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"A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice."
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"I cannot forget the figures of Slobodan Milošević, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein, who made terrified fiefdoms out of their 'own' people and mounds of corpses on the territory of their neighbours. I was glad to see each of these monsters brought to trial, and think the achievement should (and one day will) form part of the battle honours of British Labour. Many of the triumphant pelters and taunters would have left the dictators and aggressors in place: they too will have their place in history."
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"Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice."
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"Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?"
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"Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day,Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play:How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie,How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry."
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"It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a "racist in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the suicidal endeavor which makes them fanatics or revolutionaries, or both."
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"I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality."
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"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."
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"There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression."
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"I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant."
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"The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes."
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"I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others."
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"I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated."
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"Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?"
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"Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value."
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"If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop."
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