Expedience Quote by Jessica Shattuck Download Open image ““expedience could not take precedence over the pursuit of justice.”” — Jessica Shattuck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expedience Expedience Precedence Justice Precedence Pursuit Pursuit Pursuit Justice
“We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.” — Walter Van Tilburg Clark Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.” — Lord Chief Justice Hewart Copy Share Image
“Anything I say cannot do justice to the complexity of another. But I can try.” — Alix Adale Copy Share Image
“In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded.” — Mike Klepper Copy Share Image
“Justice cannot just be something that one part of society inflicts on the other.” — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
“A state of inactivity was never mean for man…There are hours when I feel unequal to the trial...Let no person say what they would… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Justice is a tricky thing. When it seems near, it can be most powerful and uplifting. But when it is denied, it can eat… — Lindsey Becker Copy Share Image
“Years later, as a professor, Martin would try to find the words to articulate the power of togetherness in a world where togetherness had… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“Yet here they were, carrying groceries, holding children’s hands, turning their collars up against the wind. As if their moments of truth—the decisions by… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people’s most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country.” — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“Martin was swept up in the sound—no longer blood and bone, frozen feet and hungry belly, but an empty vessel filling with notes, carried… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“Americans can face the world with open arms, Marianne had once said, because the world hasn’t yet come to knock it down.” — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“This music had been played and heard before and would be again, not only here in this church, but in places all over the… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“Instead she squeezes Mary’s arm and appreciates her kindness. Her understanding. This is why people have children, even when they believe the world is… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“Benita set the letter down. Connie - her dear Connie, whom she had never even said good-bye to. Whom she had hated - really… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“They had wrung their hands over his dangerous conflations, his fervor, and his lack of humanity. But Freddy Lederer’s account was something new to… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“In the future, Martin will recall this night as the first time -- and one of the only times -- he ever saw Germans… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“her dearest friends were like dreams she had woken from. How had she missed so much?” — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“There is not enough air in the room for Marianne and Elizabeth to share. They have learned this the hard way, but acceptance of… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences. — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
