- Doubt
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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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- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in the Department of Justice. With no defense lawyers present, they need only show probable cause that the target is an 'agent of a foreign power' engaged in intelligence gathering against the United States.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of the job of attorney general has changed - irrevocably. And we should never again have an attorney general, of either party, capable of expressing surprise at the role that national security issues now play in the life of the Justice Department or in the role of its chief.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secret courts require great faith that the Justice Department - and future Justice Departments - will act with integrity.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
- Nov 07, 2020
Justice is truth in action.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The NBA has prided itself on free expression. Its players and owners have a well-earned reputation for speaking out on social justice in the United States. Sadly, it seems woke capitalism stops at the water's edge.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020