J Quotes
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“Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.”
“Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".”
“Justice not charity, solidarity not pity, opportunity not handouts.”
“Justice O'Connor was the fifth vote to uphold the time-honored principle, which bears repeating, of separation of church and state. There was real wisdom in the decision of our forefathers in writing a Constitution that gave us an opportunity to grow as such a diverse nation, and we should never forget it.”
“Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.”
Source: Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth With Eloquent Thunder
“Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.”
Source: Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?
“Justice on earth is no legal matter, If one soul is hurt all must rise together.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Justice only exist introvertly”
“Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.
[Justice pleases few in their own house.]”
“Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?”
Source: A Bright Room Called Day
“Justice prevails as a necessary and essential code of conduct on itself upon every area of your life, because God is justice…God is peace…God is love…If you are ill, get healing books…if you are sad, get books of happiness…it you are touched with injustice and you are fighting against strongholds, get the books of peace and justice…if you want salvation, get all the Stellah Mupanduki healing and moulding books breathed by the Holy Spirit of a Sovereign God who is mighty to save and protect you quickly…Hey Readers, do not suffer alone and in silence…the Stellah Mupanduki healing books given and written by the Finger of God himself through a vessel; are your voice and you will overcome against all odds, you will break all strongholds in truth and in spirit…So, get books and be healed…Sacred Writing …For Sacred Healing”
Source: Be Healed From HIV/AIDS
“Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.”
“Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.”
“Justice renders to every one his due.”
“Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“Justice requires enduring dispassion without concern to popular desires.”
“Justice requires lawyers who are prepared, witnesses who tell the truth, judges who know the law, and jurors who stay awake. Justice is the North Star, the burning bush, the holy virgin. It cannot be bought, sold, or mass produced. It is intangible, ineffable, and invisible, but if you are to spend your life in its pursuit, it is best to believe it exists, and that you can attain it.”
“Justice requires more than laws; it needs active participation. Standing up for fairness, protecting the vulnerable, and holding power accountable are collective responsibilities. A society thrives when justice is practiced consistently.”
“Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned through the perpetration of injustice. If restitution is not made and reparations not instituted to compensate for prior injustices, those injustices are in effect rewarded. And the benefits such rewards conferred on the perpetrators of injustice will continue to "draw interest," to be reinvested, and to be passed on to their children, who will use their inherited advantages to continue to exploit the children of the victims of the injustices of their ancestors. Consequently, injustice and inequality will be maintained across the generations as will their deleterious social, economic, and political outcomes.”
“Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.”
Source: Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]
“Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.”
“Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.”
“Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think they are - her pragmatism and her state craft.”
“Justice Sandra Day O'Connor decisions reflect, in my view, that our society has worked very hard to improve the workaday world, to open doors to workers confronted by powerful employers and for women facing harassment and stereotypes.”
“Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been a pioneer, and her dedicated service on the Supreme Court will never be forgotten. And the people of the country certainly owe her a great debt for the service that she has provided.”
“Justice Sandra Day O'Connor serves as a model Supreme Court justice, widely recognized as a jurist with practical values, a sense of the consequences of the legal decisions being made by the Supreme Court.”
“Justice satisfies everybody.”
Source: Frank
“Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.”
“Justice seldom happens by accident.”
Source: Never work for a jerk!
“Justice shall be mixed with mercy. You shall not always be an Ass.”
Source: The Horse and His Boy
“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
“Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.”
“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”
“Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Justice, solidarity, freedom, equal rights—these are all ideas that come straight out of the Enlightenment. In fact, out of classical liberalism. Classical liberalism is very anti-capitalist, contrary to what everybody says. And classical liberal and Enlightenment ideals lead in a very direct path, I think, to what was called libertarian socialism, or anarchism, or something like that.
The idea is that people have a fundamental core right and need to be free and creative, not under external constraints. Any form of authority requires legitimation. The burden of proof is always on an authoritarian structure, whatever it may be, whether it's owning people, sex-linked, or even child-parent relationships. Any form of authority has to be challenged. Sometimes they can be justified, and maybe in that case, okay, you live with them. But for the most part, not.
That would then lead quite directly to what were kind of truisms about a century ago. I mean, now they sound really crazy because there's been such a deterioration of values. But if you look at the thinking of just ordinary people, like say the working-class press in the mid-19th century, which grew where the ideas just grew out of the same soil—Enlightenment, classical liberal soil—the ideas are clear. Obviously, people should not be machines. They shouldn't be tools of production. They shouldn't be ordered around. We don't want chattel slavery, you know, like black slaves in the South, but we also don't want what was called, since the 18th century, wage slavery, which is not very different. Namely, where you have to rent yourself to survive.
In a way, it was argued with some plausibility that you're worse off than a slave in that scenario. Actually, slave owners argued that. When slave owners were defending slavery, there was a kind of a moral debate that went on. It had shared moral turf, as a lot of moral debate did. The slave owners made a plausible point. They said, "Look, we own our workers. You just rent your workers. When you own something, you take much better care of it than when you rent it." To put it a little anachronistically, if you rent a car, you're not going to pay as much attention to taking care of it as if you own the car, for obvious reasons. Similarly, if you own people, you're going to take more care of them than if you rent people. If you rent people and you don't want them anymore, you throw them out. If you own people, well, you've got a sort of an investment in them, so you make them healthier and so on. So, the slave owners, in fact, argued, "Look, we're a lot more moral than you guys with your capitalist, wage slave system."
Ordinary working people understood that. After the Civil War, you find in the American working-class press bitter complaints over the fact that, "Look, we fought to end chattel slavery, and now you're driving us into wage slavery, which is the same sort of thing." This is one core institution in society where people are forced to become tools of others, to be cast out if they're not necessary. It's a grotesque arrangement, totally contrary to the ideals of classical liberalism or Enlightenment values or anything else. It's now become sort of standard doctrine, but that's just a victory of absolutism, and we should dismantle all that stuff.
Culturally, it starts with changes. You've got to change your minds and your spirit, and recover what was a common understanding in a more civilized period, let's say a century ago, in the shop floors of Lowell, Massachusetts. Recover that understanding, and then we work to simply democratize all institutions, free them up, and eliminate authoritarian structures. As I say, you find them everywhere. From families up to corporations, there are all kinds of authoritarian structures in the world. They all ought to be challenged. Very few of them can resist that challenge. They survive mainly because they're not challenged.”
“Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.”
“Justice still is blind it can only fantasize.”
“Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right.”
“Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right. If we don’t fight lawlessness, it prevails. If we don’t establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country. God says there is no man when there is nobody who stands for the truth.”
“Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.”
“Justice.' Thoros smiled wanly. 'I remember justice. It had a pleasant taste. Justice was what we were about hone Beria led us, or so we told ourselves. We were king's men, knights, and heroes...but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.'
'Are you saying you are monsters?'
'I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne. Some of my brothers were good men when this began. Some were...less good, shall we say? Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how it ends. I suppose it is the same for women.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“Justice through injustice is not genuine justice. It's injustice perpetuated.”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“Justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students
“Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.”
“Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.”
“Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there”
“Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.”
Source: Death of a Red Heroine