105 quotes found
“Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”
“Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in.”
“If logic and reason, the hard, cold products of the mind, can be relied upon to deliver justice or produce the truth, how is it that these brain-heavy judges rarely agree? Five-to-four decisions ar...”
“Their voices meld into a cloudy rumble of their own, and I ponder Mira's and Aidan's secrets and imagine the injustice that threads through other lives, injustice that has no face because it is hid...”
“I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.”
“The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.”
“Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.”
“It is about doing the most good with the only two hands I can control.”
“Justice has a right to protest against injustice.”
“Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice.”
“I believe one of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.”
“But to whom can one appeal when one does not even know where to find the judge? How can one ever hope to prove one's innocence when there is no means of knowing of what one has been accused? No, th...”
“I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.”
“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”
“Yet it is trueskin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in ...”
“We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk back, you didn't ever, ever get angry. White people could do thathell, they could sho...”
“In the beginningand neither can this be overstateda Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not know what he has done to merit it. And when he realizes that...”
“Injustice coupled with racism is a highly explosive mixture, in which the world, threatens to suffocate.”
“One has to be careful, whenever one tells a story about a great injustice. We are a species that loves narrative, but has been taught not to trust an individual speaker.”
“[W]hile the use of non-lethal weapons such as tasers and LEDIs may not necessarily reduce the number of civilian casualties, they have been largely accepted as the humane alternative to deadly forc...”
