We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists... →
Sonia Sotomayor
I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.
I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as... →
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always... →
Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.
Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal... →
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
Wole Soyinka
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must... →
Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's... →
Arlen Specter