Justice Quotes
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
Ted Deutch
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Harold H. Greene
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I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
Patricia Ireland
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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.
Abe Fortas
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to say it's a dream come true doesn't do it justice, because I've never dreamed this big. The film and play stand side by side -- you get the advantage of more intimacy in the film's close-ups, and the advantage of live rock onstage.
Anthony Rapp
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Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.
Patch Adams
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Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
Majora Carter
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Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
William Lloyd Garrison
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
Ban Ki-moon
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Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
Adam Smith
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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Plato
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A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts
Al-Farabi
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It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
Oliver Tambo
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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I'm hoping that somehow with songs like 'American Gold' there will be some kind of justice, and people just stop being so close-minded to where they're like, 'Oh, it's not race.' It's easy to say that when you're not black and you haven't experienced it.
Tionne Watkins
TLC
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
