“Es [gibt] vielleicht pragmatische Urteile, nicht aber pragmatische Gerechtigkeit.”
“Why must Justice have a color? Is it the same REASON that the sky are BLUE?”
“A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression.”
“We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.”
“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
“Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That’s not fair!”
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
“If you read someone else s diary, you get what you deserve.”
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
“...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. ...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
“Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”
“Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.”