Injustice System Quotes

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Delay in justice is injustice.

The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

If the law supposes that ... the law is a ass – a idiot.

You may pronounce us guilty a thousand times over but the goddess of the eternal court of history will tear to tatters the brief of the state prosecutor and the sentence of this court.

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

We have a situation where a young man is basically convicted of his own murder.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.