Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.
It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.