... the Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now ...that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The words of the Constitution ... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior d...ecisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God of justice, God of mercy, Make us merciful and just!... Help us see all your creation As from you a sacred trust. And when people cry in anguish For their own or others' pain, Show us ways to make a difference O dear God, make us humane!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have sp...ent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chief Justice. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great. Falstaff. I would it were otherwise. I would my means we...re greater, and my waist slenderer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper. The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the w...idow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, ...who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »