#justices

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it. ↗

— Richard Helms

#clients #court #done #failed #fourteen

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#best #could #democrat #i #i think

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#accepting #away #comes #complexes #contrary

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#discoveries #great #injustices #lands

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #commit #injustices #make #power

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#deeper #denial #even #extensive #falsely

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#does #eastern #eastern europe #europe #fact

The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#ask #asked #attorney #attorney general #bobby

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so. ↗

— John Cornyn

#justices #platform #political #politicians #run

There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#bring #concurrently #confirmed #court #general