Justice Quotes
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The Justice Department didn't know anything about this.
Dan Burton
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The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.
Lajos Kossuth
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All lawyers are going to have to - if we really want to attain civil justice - address the issue of how complicated we have made the laws: what we have done to ensnarl the American people in bureaucratic rules and regulations that make access to services or compliance with the law sometimes difficult, if not impossible.
Janet Reno
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You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Birch Bayh
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Laws on hate speech and hate crimes do important work in a world that has been rooted in racism and bigotry since the inception of this country, which was not founded on ideals of justice.
DeRay Mckesson
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A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson
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Sophocles taught us that the greatest of all human laws is justice… and I think that is something we have to remember.
Alexis Tsipras
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We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
Solon
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Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.
Joan Kirner
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The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
Bill James
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Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.
John Garamendi
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato
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Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.
Charles B. Rangel -
It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.
Ugo Betti
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
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I am happy because finally justice came out, and I never lost my hope in justice.
Arturo Sandoval
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The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
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I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.
Bruce Willis
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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.
Confucius
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.
Geoff Mulgan
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We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.
Carter G. Woodson
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Considerations of justice are also integral to efforts to generate transcultural security in the first instance and, ultimately, transcultural synergy.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.
Fannie Barrier Williams
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Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
D. Todd Christofferson