107 Justice Served Quotes

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Famous Justice Served Quotes

Justice delayed is justice denied. — William Ewart Gladstone

Justice too long delayed is justice denied. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice never rules forever. — Seneca

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. — Potter Stewart

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan. — John M. Perkins

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not. — Sonia Sotomayor

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due. — Justinian I

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice. — Julian Assange

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. — Blaise Pascal

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion — Frank Herbert

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. - Zora Neale Hurston

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. — Zora Neale Hurston

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom — Clarence Darrow

Nothing is to be preferred before justice. — Socrates

Justice is incidental to law and order. - J. Edgar Hoover

Justice is incidental to law and order. — J. Edgar Hoover

Short Justice Served Quotes

  • Justice and judgment lie often a world apart. — Emmeline Pankhurst
  • There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court. — Clarence Darrow
  • Money will always trump justice. — Julian Casablancas
  • Justice is what love looks like in public. — Cornel West
  • For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge. — Confucius
  • Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Justice Served Image Quotes

Justice served quote Believe you deserve it and the universe will serve it.
Believe you deserve it and the universe will serve it.

Justice Not Being Served Quotes

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. — Benjamin Franklin

We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love. — Richard Mitchell

I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served. — Stephanie Adams

Justice served quote A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels. — Atom Egoyan

And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am -- Death's justice. — R.L. LaFevers

Justice Is Served Quotes

The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. — Anne Sullivan Macy

Justice served quote The ultimate purpose of life is to be of service.
The ultimate purpose of life is to be of service.

It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls. — Teresa of Avila

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one. — Albert Einstein

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth. — Theodore Parker

Justice served quote Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial t
Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serves the empire - a Jesus painfully divorced from his ministry of justice. — Allan Boesak

What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say. — Janet Morris

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade! — Vivian Campbell

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration. — Earl Warren

Justice Will Be Served Quotes

If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve. — Ralph Nader

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial. — Andrew Cohen

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Justice served quote Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders. — Sun Tzu

No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality. — Dejan Stojanovic

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power. — Derrick Jensen

Justice Will Prevail Quotes

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect — Vann R. Newkirk II

The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last. — Robert E. Lee

Justice served quote The government's first duty is to protect the people.
The government's first duty is to protect the people.

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned. — Clayton Moore

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. — Cat Stevens

For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction. — Hillary Clinton

Justice served quote I am here to serve. I am here to inspire, I am here to love. I am here to live my truth.
I am here to serve. I am here to inspire, I am here to love. I am here to live my truth.

That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail. — Desmond Tutu

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world! — Pope Francis

Justice will prevail! — Tsugumi Ohba

We will accomplish all of the steps .And, when we do, peace and law and justice and prosperity will prevail. Crime will go down. Border crossings will plummet. Gangs will disappear. — Donald Trump

Justice Denied Quotes

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. — Coretta Scott King

All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. — Chief Joseph

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass

Justice served quote If there is no justice for the people, there be no peace for the government.
If there is no justice for the people, there be no peace for the government.

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered. — Ida Tarbell

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. — Johan Huizinga

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal. — Mahatma Gandhi

Justice served quote There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when w
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God. — Ted Cruz

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied. — Urvashi Vaid

I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth. — Paul Robeson

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More Justice Served Quotes

Power and those in control concede nothing ... without a demand. Hey never have and never will... Each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there is no peace. — Frederick Douglass

One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. — Che Guevara

Justice served quote Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.
Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation. — Joseph Brant

Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way, just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself. — Jerry Bridges

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice. — Leonard Peltier

But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy. — Bill Moyers

Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. — Madeleine Albright

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor serves as a model Supreme Court justice, widely recognized as a jurist with practical values, a sense of the consequences of the legal decisions being made by the Supreme Court. — Patrick Leahy

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority. — Noah Feldman

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen. — Bram Fischer

I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them? — Max Stirner

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself. — Saint Augustine

I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given. — Martin Sheen

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice... Our finest moments have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands. — George W. Bush

Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man. Because all Americans just must have the right to vote. And we are going to give them that right. All Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race. And they are going to have those privileges of citizenship regardless of race. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a real Justice Department that actually cared about serving up equal justice under the law, she would be facing a number of felony charges. — Ted Nugent

"I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not." [...] "I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless." [...] "The coranti shall not go unpunished." [...] "My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility, nobility. In shame, honor. In darkness, light. I will do justice and love mercy." — Brent Weeks

There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices. — Patrick Leahy

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it. — Amber Frey

What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work. — Peter MacKay

This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades. — Jay Alan Sekulow

President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I came to the Department of Justice, there were only ten Negroes employed as lawyers; not a single Negro served as a United States Attorney - or ever had in the history of the country. That has been changed. — Robert Kennedy

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he's very funny and very smart. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society. — Sonia Sotomayor

I don't get paid to serve the president. I get paid to serve the public and what I think is in the interest of justice, no matter who the president is. — Preet Bharara

It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city. — Al Sharpton

If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice will have a direct impact on the lives and liberties of our children, our grandchildren, and even our great-grandchildren. — Edward Kennedy

It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court - Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito - has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority. — Edward Kennedy

[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date. — Patrick Leahy

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