- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice Quotes
On fairness, nature's justice, and social change.
One recurring idea here is striking: that nature itself outvotes us, remembering longer and judging more strictly than human institutions ever could. Elsewhere, justice is framed as the goal of a teaching movement rather than a courtroom concept. Peace touches similar territory.
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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history, and loved our most treasured values of freedom, democracy, justice.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest memories are when my father was the attorney general at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. We would go to visit him at the Justice Department and take the tunnel over to the FBI building and watch the sharpshooters at practice.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Access to justice is a fundamental part of a properly functioning democracy.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a firm believer in open justice, and an opponent of closed justice in any normal circumstances. But I am also an opponent of legal purism, and have no time for institutionalised mythmaking - whether from the authoritarian right or the liberal left.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.
- Determinism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always nice to get a storyline - I know all actors say that, but it genuinely is, as it feels like the show's team are putting their faith in you to do it justice, so it's quite a compliment.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
So if you want a really effective criminal justice strategy, you don't build bigger prisons, you invest money in young kids - and you accept that it's going to take years to work through, but it's a more effective strategy.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
At any given time, all of us have an empty spot: one that is calling for companionship, for example, or for justice, love, romance, or a belly laugh. When I sit down to write, I look to see what hole needs filling at that particular moment.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020