Justice Quotes - Page 31

• There is no justice here; there is no justice there; there is no justice anywhere!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

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• Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Yesterday, Today, Needs

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• I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Heart, Humble

  Address to the Nation Pardoning Richard M. Nixon, delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.

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• To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Mother, Brother

  "Pope Francis Takes On Mafia, Corruption In Naples" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2015.

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• May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.

  Pope Francis

  Strength, Peace, Children

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• Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

  Pope Francis

  Soccer, Country, Peace

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• Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.

  Pope Francis

  Strong, Church, Needs

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• We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Helping, Spirals, Resources

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• The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement.

  Mario Cuomo

  Law, Community, Doe

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• I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands, immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Hands, Law

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• Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Strength, Peace

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

  Wendell Berry

  Rights, Defense, Violence

  "The Failure of War" by Wendell Berry, www.yesmagazine.org. November 5, 2001.

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• We are not relying solely on their findings but rather the facts that we have gathered and verified, we ask for the public to remain patient and peaceful and to trust the process of the justice system.

  Marilyn Mosby

  Peaceful, Facts, Patient

  "Baltimore Police Complete Initial Inquiry Into Death of Freddie Gray" by Alan Blinder, Richard Pérez-Peña, www.nytimes.com. April 30, 2015.

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• People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

  Efraim Zuroff

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Filmmaker's email claimed BBC 'policy' barred him from revealing hundreds of living Nazis". www.foxnews.com. February 2, 2015.

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• I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.

  James Meredith

  Strong, Mean, Government

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• All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must.

  Michael Wright

  Criminals, Want, Responsible

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• Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

  Al Sharpton

  Names, Police, Connections

  "2 NYPD police officers 'assassinated'; shooter dead" by Joshua Berlinger, Ray Sanchez and Shimon Prokupecz, www.cnn.com. December 20, 2014.

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• Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action that discriminates against minorities and one that benefits minorities.

  Erwin Chemerinsky

  Government, Differences, Minorities

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• I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.

  Carolina Kostner

  Determined, Bitter, Not Happy

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• In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.

  Mariane Pearl

  Reality, Everyday, Enemy

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• Nobody wants justice.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Want

  Alan M. Dershowitz (2011). “The Best Defense”, p.16, Vintage

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• Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.

  Sharan Burrow

  Children, People, Energy

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• This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

  Matthew Dowd

  Race, Numbers, Issues

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• Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.

  Mary B. Harris

  Revenge, Character, Government

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• Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties

  Elizabeth Blair Lee

  Faith, Men, Trials

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