History Quote by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by…

— Nelson Mandela

“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”

— John Quincy Adams

We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.

— Anonymous

“South Carolina had thirteen lynchings last year, ten were charged with assault on white women, one with horse stealing and two with being impudent…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom’s jury, but you…

— Harper Lee

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

— John Grisham

“Forget the damned investigation. I am beginning to think that if the matter were put to the test, I would finish a poor second…

— Amanda Quick

“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about…

— James Baldwin

“Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.”

— Richard Paul Evans

“They all knew the verdict in advance and they knew its reason; no other reason had existed for years, where no standards, save whim,…

— Ayn Rand

“The effort whites put into observing racial etiquette has been demonstrated in the laboratory.”

— Jared Taylor

“On the whole, perhaps, it might be admitted that rough justice was done, but it exasperated the assistant that his chief trusted his instinct…

— W. Somerset Maugham