“But it is also true that sometimes I have had to watch helplessly as the courts could not be persuaded to do what seemed clearly within their power...”
Source: Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences
“Either you can let your suck define who you are, or you can break free and write the story of your future and success.”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
“Rulings – or laws – are so far ahead of reality; or if Courts, having decreed a remedy, do not follow up to ensure that it is being adhered to...”
Source: Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences
“he air we breathe in Delhi this winter is much cleaner than it was two or three winters ago; fewer pollutants are being dumped into the Yamuna. Each of these turnarounds is traceable solely to the directions that the Supreme Court gave.”
Source: Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences
“That question should have struck the Court.”
Source: Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences
“Can we keep up at this pace?”
Source: Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences
“Before parting, we place on record our deep anguish …”
Source: Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences
“It was a great relief to be in a federal court. Here the atmosphere of justice prevailed. No one can understand the feeling that comes to a Southern Negro on entering a federal court unless he sees with his own eyes and feels with his own soul the tragic sabotage of justice in the city and state courts of the South. The Negro goes into these courts knowing that the cards are stacked against him. Here he is virtually certain to face a prejudiced jury or a biased judge, and is openly robbed with little hope of redress. But the Southern Negro goes into the federal court with the feeling that he has an honest chance of justice before the law.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“I have long held that judicial restraint, expressed through a well-reasoned rejection, is at times the most efficient form of justice; preserving both time and the sanctity of process”
“To shift from such a lofty fancy as the planetarization of consciousness to the operation of our municipal legal system is to come down to earth hard. Before the forces that are at work, our highest court is but a frail and feeble-a distinctly human-institution. Yet, the Court may be at its best not in its work of handing down decrees, but at the very task that is called for: of summoning up from the human spirit the kindest and most generous and worthy ideas that abound there, giving them shape and reality and legitimacy.”
Source: Should Trees have Standing?