“After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.” PeopleIdeasReadingJusticeConditionsColorTerribleGainsUnionsCriminalsRealizationFormerLatterSovietSoviet UnionScholarshipCrowJustice SystemStunningCriminal JusticeJim CrowCriminal Justice SystemGulags Author:David Levering Lewis
“Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.” IfsMenNeedsLawHumanityIndividualJusticeAnimalTerribleMembersResourcesBeastSavages Author:Aristotle
“God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.” MadeEyeRunningLawEvilJusticeDarknessFeetTerribleCaughtBlockGood WillIntricateStumblingMeshStumbling BlocksEyes That See Author:Jessie Sampter
“It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.” RealSufferingJusticeImpossibleSourceTerribleSorrowConception Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.” JusticeTerribleUmpiresNecessary Things Author:Jessamyn West
“...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.” SaidFatherJusticeSinRaceGenerationsBloodTerrible Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.” MenDifferentJusticePowerfulWallTerribleEthicsVoteInstrumentsInjusticeCivil RightsVotingMost PowerfulDestroyingFairnessBreaking DownRight To VoteElections And VotingVoting Rights ActInspirational VotingLbjVoting Day Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well.” ThinkingKnowsWellsDoneJusticeRaceTerribleSlaveryBlindSpotsLegacyBlind SpotsLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen