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Justice Quotes
"I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others."
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"My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me."
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"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
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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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"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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"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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"Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above this sceptred sway It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice."
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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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"We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars."
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"Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it."
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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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"There is always room at the top - after the investigation."
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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
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"What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law."
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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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"Someone asked me why does bad thing happen to good people?My answer: because when bad thing happens to bad nobody sees it. When something bad happens to a bad man there is no difference but when it happens to a good person people will know. Satan doesn t advertise good things because that is not his job. His job is to steal, kill and destroy. The devil doesn t talk good of good people but good people should always talk of something that is good."
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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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"It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing."
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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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"As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc."
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"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."
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"Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both."
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"A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!"
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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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"Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed."
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"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other."
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"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."
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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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"I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation."
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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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"Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant."
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