Justice Quotes

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

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

"Shoot all the jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"I'm simply defending a Negro man."

"What reasonable doubt is, gentlemen, is the kind of doubt that would make a reasonable man hesitate."

"The jury compared notes in the dark."

"I rebel against the world order in the name of compassion."

"What is this power? It must be justice."

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

"But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Edison, and the ignorant man the equal of any president."

"The days of using the law to oppress people should be over."

"She don't give a damn about what we want. She just wants control."

"They use shame like a weapon in this place."

"That's some catch, that Catch-22."

"Justice delayed is justice denied to all humanity"

"Consider your own lives. Has any of you been reduced by them to a lower caste?"

"Guilt consumes the soul more surely than any earthly punishment"

"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."

"I rebel, not against God, but against the sufferings of innocent children."

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

"The system wants us docile and compliant."

"This place is designed to break your spirit."

"The system feeds on our weakness."

"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—his name's Tom Robinson."

"This case, Tom, is as simple as black and white."

"I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the American judicial system; it's no doubt perfect."