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Justice Quotes
"The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?"
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"Human rights protection laws typically come under attack from those who made these laws necessary to begin with."
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"Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law."
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"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
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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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"As the savage progresses, he acquires experience and formulates codes of 'right' and 'wrong' from his memories of those courses which have helped or hurt him... Then out of the principle of barter comes the illusion of 'justice' ..."
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"Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred."
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"It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line."
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"Unfair prejudice can result people being living with fear and unfair treatment if it is based on physical appearance. Therefore, this conflict should be intervened seriously and violators of this act of hate crime should get punished and understand deeply about the significance of human existence, so they can get pressured to change and act morally."
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"A prosperous nation is built on the foundation of justice, equality, and the well-being of its people."
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"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."
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"They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves."
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"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice."
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"When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure."
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"With every dream and with every love, you have to die to the old, and be reborn to the new. You must leave what you know behind, and surrender to the unknown."
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"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
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"You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine."
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"There used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called "diminished capacity" and "not guilty by reason on insanity." These concepts would bewilder a Loonie. In Luna City a man would necessarily be of diminished mental capacity to even think about rape; to carry one out would be the strongest possible proof of insanity - but among Loonies such mental disorders would not gain a rapist any sympathy. loonies do not psychoanalyze a rapist; they kill him. Now. Fast. Brutally."
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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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"Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity."
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"In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes."
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"His sense of "justice had been hard tempered by his sense of law enforcement, a perfect way to reverse the presumption of innocence."
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"I have earned my revenge on everyone who hurt me. My father, who tortured me every day - I crushed his chest and his heart. Teren, sick and twisted and mad - I took away his beloved just as he took away mine. Raffaele, who betrayed and manipulated me - I seized control of the prince he loves, and I made sure he watched his prince destroy in my name. And Violetta, darling, dearest sister who turned her back when I needed her the most. I cast her out. I finally said everything to her that I wanted to say. I have hurt back."
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"Some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be --- as here they are --- mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces ...."
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"He's focused on something-or someone-over her shoulder.The harmonious warbling of the rainforest morphs into organized disarray, as if a primitive maestro has thrown conducting to the wind and let Mother Nature take over. Birds trill a warning as the breeze rustles the plant life. Wings flutter overhead. A crescendo of stridulation changes tempo, the insects seemingly performing a sonata as the rhythm shifts yet again.'What-who is it? Summer asks in a strained whisper.His gaze lands on her, his brows furrowing. 'The Forsaken."
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"As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it."
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"Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them."
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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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"Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?"
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