A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.
Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.
He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.
But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance, I'd just take the solving of the how-to problems for granted. The first thing I'd provide would be festivals.
We really haven't seen much of the attorney general or people from the Department of Justice. So it's very consistent with the way this investigation has been handled, and that is that the decisions have been made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
There are no secrets. It's just we thought that they said dead. When they said bread.
No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.