Justice Fairness Quotes

Our criminal justice system was designed to be fair and is the fairest system known to man.

Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Prosecutorial misconduct is one of the most detrimental problems in our criminal justice system, because prosecutors are essentially the most powerful actors in our justice system because they set the charges, they basically set up the rules of the game.

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But it does allow relationships to start over. In that way, said Solzhenitsyn, we differ from all animals. It is not our capacity to think that makes us different, but our capacity to repent, and to forgive.

Criminal justice should not be a show for citizens.

The scales of justice often, in my head, are unbalanced. And so my job is to try to balance out those scales.

We cannot create the perception that if you're rich or famous or both that you got one set of justice - and for everybody else it's something much harsher. That won't do and we need to make sure that we have a criminal justice system that has integrity.

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

We shouldn't tell prosecutors to 'pick and choose' what laws to uphold.

Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than our humblest citizen, so that we can end the double standard of justice in America.