Justice Quotes

"Vengeance is the lust of the gods."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"I wanted to murder the old woman without any sanction from anybody, and without trying to persuade anybody."

"They are careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures."

"Crime is a kind of madness"

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, that white man is trash."

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried."

"I wanted to see what an unfair trial looked like."

"I cannot accept a world where innocent children suffer."

"The innocent must sometimes pay for the guilty."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"I'm simply defending a Negro man."

"I have paid for that loaf of bread with sixty-three years of suffering."

"The day of judgment has not yet come for me, nor perhaps for you"

"I am the night. I am what stands between you and the abyss."

"Revenge is a dish best served cold."

"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice served with patience is justice perfected."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but whenever a white man does it to a black man, that white man is trash."

"I'm simply defending a Negro man."

"The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked for certain people don't amount to much."

"We're the ones who have to pay."

"The hardest thing is to bear witness to injustice in silence"

"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."

"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"

"You see, as you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life"

"I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief defendant in this case"

"The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only"