Justice Quotes
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I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
Van Jones -
Whoever carried out this abuse must be caught and brought to justice, regardless of rank or background.
Jack Straw
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Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
A. Philip Randolph -
When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the sins, but it will at least record them. The sinners would be known, and the victims' stories would be known.
David Grann -
The Savior's suffering in Gethsemane and His agony on the cross redeem us from sin by satisfying the demands that justice has upon us. He extends mercy and pardons those who repent. The Atonement also satisfies the debt justice owes to us by healing and compensating us for any suffering we innocently endure.
D. Todd Christofferson -
As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign.
Joaquin Castro -
It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.
William H. Hastie -
I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.
2 Chainz
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I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.
Amy Klobuchar -
"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
Miguel de Cervantes -
By not dealing with past human rights violations, we are not simply protecting the perpetrators' trivial old age ; we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
Antjie Krog -
We all knew the apparatus of justice had dissolved.
James Howard Kunstler -
Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
Plato -
I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.
Enoch Powell
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Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Jean Racine -
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
Honore de Balzac -
'Justice' actually means different things to different people.
Christopher Priest -
You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.
William Shawcross -
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I was nominated at first by a group called Justice Democrats. They were trying to essentially field non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm election. They were looking for people with a history of community service, and my name had come across their desk, and they called.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John Donne -
Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
William Penn -
We need to advocate for social justice and reform so that all minorities are protected not only under the law but more importantly by our cultural values and ethic. The law cannot change the human heart. Government is limited in its ability to effect culture. This is the role and responsibility of the Church. Only Jesus can move us from hate to love.
Erwin McManus