Justice Quotes - Page 124

I want to appoint Supreme Court justices who understand the way the world really works, who have real-life experience, who have not just been in a big law firm and maybe clerked for a judge and then gotten on the bench, but, you know, maybe they tried some more cases, they actually understand what people are up against.

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Somehow it must be made plain that the lawyer's moral judgment is not for hire, that there are occasions when the lawyer . . . is under a duty to act as a person of independent ethical concern with obligations not only to his client's interests but also to fairness and justice in the management of affairs.

I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and perdition, and Christ as their rescuer from that doom. I never was more or less behuiled by the trickery of language by which the perdition of man is made out to be justice, and his redemption to be mercy.

Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over the world recognize that these bad people, these criminals who committed crimes like that will be shown to the courts, and the people will have justice, and that we all shall work together to prevent these bad people from hurting us again.

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.

Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.

Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.

God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.