Justice quotes

What is an unalienable right if you are a negro? What does it mean, "equal treatment" under the law? What-what does it mean, liberty and justice for all? Now I say to these people, "Look at the face of this young man, and you will see the face of a black man. But if you look at the blood shed, it is red! It is like yours! It is just... like... (continue)(continue reading)
Frankie Faison - Eulogist

“- Sarah: That's not fair!
- Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah
David Bowie - Jareth

“Did you know 90% of the country believes in ghosts? less than a third in evolution? 35% can correctly identify Homer Simpson's fictional town in which he resides, less than 1% knows the name Thurgood Marshall. But... when you put 12 Americans together in a jury and you ask for justice? Something just South of brilliance happens. Often as not,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Downey Jr. - Hank Palmer

“Justice doesn't mean the bad guy goes to jail, it just means that someone pays for the crime.”
Mario - Andre Bryant

“Till they invent a trigger a woman can't pull, if you're a hang man, you're going to hang woman.”
Tim Roth - Oswaldo Mobray

When the handbill says "dead or alive", the rest of us just shoot you in the back from up on top a perch somewhere and bring you in dead over a saddle. But when John Ruth “The Hangman” catches you... You hang!
Samuel L. Jackson - Major Marquis Warren

“- Juror #4: Gentlemen, let me remind you this case is based on a reasonable and logical progression of facts. Please, let's keep it.
- Juror #11: Facts may be coated by the personalities of the people who present them. Let's not forget that.”
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Juror #4
Edward James Olmos - Juror #11

“I just wish you could be standing where I'm standing right now and feel what that feels like; because, then, you would know something that you don't know, Mr. Prosecutor: mercy! You would know that the concept of a society is based on the quality of that mercy; its sense of fair play; its sense of justice! But I guess that's like asking a bear...” (continue)(continue reading)

Brad Davis - Billy Hayes

In my religion, they say, "Act as if you had faith... and faith will be given to you". If... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And act with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts.

Paul Newman - Frank Galvin

“Those who will not live by the law shall die by the law!”
Charlton Hesto - Moses

“Justice, young man, is only irrelative to who's in charge.”
Marius Weyers - Prof. Daniel Marais

“Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.”
Gabriel Macht

“There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free.”
Sir Sean Connery - King Arthur

“What we hold to be right, and good, and true is right and good and true for all men. Otherwise we're just another robbertribe.”
Sir Sean Connery - King Arthur

“- Anchor: So, ultimately, what feels better? Seeing justice done or seeing your book, Kentucky Blood number one on the New York Times bestseller list?
- Ellison Oswalt: The justice, without question... I'd rather cut my hands off than write a book for fame or money.”
Tavis Smiley - Anchor
Ethan Hawke - Ellison Oswalt

“The truth has not been told in this case. And I understand a lot of time has gone by, but I personally believe that it’s never too late for justice.”

Micheal B. Jordan - Bryan Stevenson

“People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care.”
Lon Chaney Jr. - Martin Howe

“You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirtystreet. For what? For nothing. For a tin star.”
Lon Chaney Jr. - Martin Howe

“- Wendell Armbruster: Is this how justice works in Italy?
- Carlo Carlucci: Shold we talk about Sacco and Vanzetti?”
Jack Lemmon - Wendell Armbruster, Jr.
Clive Revill - Carlo Carlucci

“I am a Catholic priest. I believe that those who fight for justice and truth walk in the path of God and the paths of God are infinite.”
Aldo Fabrizi - Don Pietro Pellegrini

“Okay, God, just... I want you to look down on these girlshere. They're like little flowers, and the rain you send 'em gutta be gentle and sweet. We come to you today, and we ask you to just... help 'em - help us grab this pageant by the balls and rip 'em off! I mean, if those judges don't like us, then screw 'em. These girlshere - they're...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Zahn - Wayne

“- Dr. Sanders: If the sheriff did his duty, you'd be locked up in a cell!
- Carol Nelson: If the state did its duty, you'd be locked up in a cell - a padded cell!”
Arthur Aylesworth - Dr. Sanders
Kay Francis - Carol Nelson

“Justice is coming to all of us, no matter what the fuck we do. You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Edward Blake

“- Ichabod Crane: The millennium is almost upon us. In a few months, we will be living in the nineteenth century. But our courts continue to rely on medieval devices of torture.
- High Constable: Stand down.
- Ichabod Crane: I stand up for sense and justice.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Alun Armstrong - High Constable

“He may have been a difficult man, but he had a peculiar sense of what was right — and he stuck by it.”
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz On W.C. Fields