Justice Quote by Robert H. Jackson Download Open image “The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.” — Robert H. Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Justice Mask Oppression Truth
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Oppression doesn’t make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we’ll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
“Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to empathy.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
I have always and will always stand on behalf of justice and do not condone oppression in any form. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“The German organized plundering, planned it, disciplined it, and made it official just as he organized everything else, and then he compiled the most… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for,… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought,… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Never fight on the wrong side; you might win but the burden of guilt is more than a loss. — Lilian Salan Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
In the battle for police reform, accountability and justice, Americans don't have to re-invent the wheel. We just have to revoke the thing that… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
“Why do so many people do nothing? I think it’s because most of us look at the evils and injustice around us, and we… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home — Joseph Anderson Copy Share Image
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. — Donald P. Ryan Copy Share Image
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax… — George Mason Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
At minimum, we must recognize that there are legitimate, unanswered questions about whether the Obama Justice Department involved themselves in a political project targeting… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
![“This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.” quote by George Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b92/george-mason-8435_bedfellows_this-cold-weather-has-set-all-the-young_3953.jpg)
