justice Quotes

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.