Justice Quotes

"Cheating a colored man is ten times worse than cheating a white man"

"Cruelty to children is the worst of all possible crimes"

"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."

"Catch-22 says I can do anything I want to do, but I can't do anything I want to do."

"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."

"I'm simply defending a Negro man."

"Some Negroes lie, some are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted with anything—but this is true of the people in this town too."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."

"How could they do this? He's innocent!"

"People have a way of carrying their resentments into a jury box."

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

"I'm simply defending a Negro."

"Some men deserve to die."

"We are all guilty of everything before everyone"

"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."

"But he's innocent!"

"The rules exist for a reason, but sometimes the reason is wrong."

"You can't judge a man by what he's done. You gotta judge him by what he's trying to do."

"The suffering of a single tortured child rises up and cries out against all eternity"

"I refuse to accept a heaven built on the tears of even one tortured child"

"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."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."

"I'm simply defending niggers."

"The supreme justice would be that the executioner should hang the judge."

"I'm not interested in the greater happiness. It always nauseates me."

"The innocent suffer for the guilty; that is the way of the world."