- Good
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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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- Different Roles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.
- Enforcing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a bill with deep roots in Minnesota, seeds planted by former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to agree with those who say that a justice's duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks is clearly in conflict with it.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modi has always been very particular about law and order. He believes in fairness and justice, and encouraged us to simply work as per law without fear or favour. His ability to think big and implement it on the ground is exemplary. He had a vision of a bank account for every household.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.
- Department Of Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to contribute to the community or bring about social justice. I had no such high goals.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is our lack of will that lies behind the continued denial of justice to Jean McConville. Yet there is something that we can do now for her and for ourselves before our silence turns us from spectators into passive accomplices. We can remember her.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in international justice. I believe it's important that you don't just turn the page without people being held to account.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020