#justic

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All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight

Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times--- his plan is to kill us all, and if an innocent child dies in agony and a wicked man breathes his last at an advanced age in his sleep, who are we to call it injustice?


Valerie Martin


#death #god #grief #injustice #religion

Indignation is often the best defense.


Diane Capri


#funny #justice-series #mystery #suspense #funny

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.


Harold Washington


#accomplished #action #affirmative #affirmative action #been

Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness.


Fadi Hattendorf


#fairness #inspirational #justice #life #love

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.


Martin Luther King Jr.


#justice #liberty #money

...Helen sipped peppermint schnapps and considered the world made of her design. My religion is keeping peace, she thought. It hadn't begun that way, was nothing she'd planned, but now she saw that's how it was. I just ran a grocery, she thought. I don't want this. I ain't the one to make the world right.


Alan Heathcock


#honesty #integrity #justice #law-enforcement #peacekeeper

the Reagan years "produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history....The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent...while the income of those in the top one percent rose by 87.1 percent." Chain Reaction, 23


Thomas B. Edsall


#justice #dreams

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.


Thomas Jefferson


#justice #equality

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.


Thucydides


#equality