“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.” WellsLawPeaceWealthJusticeSleepPoorPovertyRichStreetsAngerEqualityStealingBreadBridgesRich And PoorMajesticRich PoorLaw And JusticeBreaking The LawJuristsRiches And PoorsLaw BreakingObeying The LawEquality Under The LawMajestic Beauty Author:Anatole France
“All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?” IfsUseBigsPurposeHouseJusticeDecisionStreetsExampleWallCostTaxesPaperHumorousRainCourtPossessionNewspapersSupremeChiefsCorporationsRelatedWhat IfJournalSupreme CourtBurgersLandmarksBig CorporationsDepreciateWall Street JournalChief JusticeBusiness Related Author:Dave Barry
“The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.” MenTryingMindHardFatherBlackJusticeStreetsBrotherGrewGrew UpToughMalesMy BrotherStayingConceptionDiverseGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBlack Males Author:Cornel West
“Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence, without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're gonna have to change. We're gonna have to change.” IfsMenWantCountryEnoughSchoolPoliticsCommunityJusticePrayerWalksViolenceStreetsPolicyTearsHonorGunMen And WomenHuman RightsIdeologyTwelveBulletsStolenOur PrayersCivilityOur WordsSenseless Violence Author:Barack Obama
“Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!” JusticeWalksStreetsVegetablesSidewalkBoycottMarshmallowViva Author:Dolores Huerta
“As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.” PeopleSchoolRememberJusticeStreetsDiedVainSoilNative Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.” ThinkingKnowsHardSeemsBlackJusticeCitiesStreetsLandDiversitySocial JusticeFolksStrangerGrantedEach DaySuspectsFarmsPavementCity Streets Author:Richard Wright
“A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and . . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better.” HumorFunnyFriendshipJusticeStreetsMinesWalkingVoodooAcupuncture Author:Steven Wright
“That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.” PeopleYearsPersonsBigsJusticeGoneStreetsWallConscienceBuiltCrisisFirmCastlesRip Author:Steve Eisman
“I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system." I'm sure they'd like those things, but it's not what they demand in the demonstrations. In the demonstrations, they talk about justice, they talk about an end to Israeli occupation.” PeopleGivingEndsJusticeStreetsPleaseDemandWestOccupationPakistanIsraeliDemonstrationGazaClinicSewageSaying PleaseIsraeli OccupationSign Sayings Author:Robert Fisk
“Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.” Has BeensGuyJusticePowerfulCompanyMillionsCasesEconomyStreetsBrokenWallFineActivityCriminalsBillionsCampaignsFinanceRuinsExecutivesIllegalCriminal JusticeRiggedCampaign FinanceGoldman SachsIllegal Activities Author:Bernie Sanders
“The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his Justice Department should stop releasing felons, many of which are illegal immigrants, only to the streets of America.” IfsWantShouldHandsAmericaPresidentLinesJusticeStreetsGunBottomCriminalsBarackDepartmentImmigrantsIllegalBottom LinePresident Barack ObamaIllegal ImmigrantsFelons Author:Katie Pavlich