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Justice Quotes
"Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman."
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"He knew that justice was rarely dispensed within the four walls of the courtroom."
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"Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it."
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"You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!"
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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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"When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin."
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"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
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"The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured."
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"Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor."
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"When Gregory says, 'Are they guilty?' he means, 'Did they do it?' But when he says, 'Are they guilty?' he means, 'Did the court find them so?' The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away."
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"Are you telling me that now the government is going after attorneys? They're going to put every attorney for everyone they think is a bad guy 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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"The poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will."
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"Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law."
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"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
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"The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice."
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"The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole."
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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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"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."
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"My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me."
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"If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail."
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"He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?"
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"Isn't Santa just a stand in for the society that has locked them up for formative years? Something that watches and judges, telling them that they got what they deserved based on their behavior? Surely they have to have noticed that Saint Nick, like the judicial system itself, tends to look more favorably upon rich children. He is fat, white, past middle age, and holds all the cards."
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"When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is nothing more than the misguidedness and the wickedness of my own heart. I wonder other times if God wires some of us in such a way so that fair discourse might then be provided, so that honest and unbiased, due process is ultimately more likely to be carried out. Perhaps it is all necessary for variance of perception, for mindful debate: that the heart is meant to create a bit of bias on certain issues; as between one another, they weigh and balance. For not all hearts are the same."
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"Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels.If you stand back far enough it looks good.Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original.Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope.And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth."
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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
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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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"It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right."
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"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice."
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