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Jane Addams | Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself | Delete |
Jeremy Bentham | Right… is the child of law | Delete |
John Cummiskey | Equal justice is a dream. We must make it a reality | Delete |
John Marshall Harlan | Our Constitution is color-blind . . . In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. | Delete |
John Ray | They that make laws must not break them | Delete |
Jon Asher | The only thing less popular than a poor person these days is a poor person with a lawyer | Delete |
Justice Hugo Black | From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him | Delete |
Justice Hugo Black | There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has | Delete |
Justice Wiley Rutledge | Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion | Delete |
Kahlil Gibran | Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness | Delete |
Kenneth Starr | The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth. | Delete |
Learned Hand | It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE. | Delete |
Legal Maxim | The law does not concern itself with trifles | Delete |
Lewis Powell, Jr. | Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status | Delete |
Lois McMaster Bujold | The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them | Delete |