“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.”
“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one s ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there s no fairness on earth.”
“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection, and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”