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Justice Quotes
"You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process."
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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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"Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
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"We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all."
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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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"Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice."
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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 administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."
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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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"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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"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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"The power structure understands that Black folks have been hungry for so long, fixing us a plate now that's the same size as theirs would do nothing for our hunger. After all, they're pretty full and fat.They know we now require a much bigger plate than theirs to quiet the stomach rumblings.They see us and know what it looks like to be less powerful. They are fighting to never FEEL it."
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"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."
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"The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague."
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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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"If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail."
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"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."
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"Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances."
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"Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness."
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"May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you struggle with Christian methods and Christian weapons. Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."
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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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"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."
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"A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice."
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"In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living."
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"I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up."
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"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
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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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"Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?"
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"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape."
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"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
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"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."
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"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
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"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment."
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"Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you."
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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
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"We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice."
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