3,047 Quotes About Law

I Don’t MAKE TWO ORDERS For ONE ORDEAL UNLIKE LAW

القانون كنسيج العنكبوت مقبرة للحشرات الصغيرة وقنطرة للحشرات الكبيرة

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

Maybe you'll be better treated next time.""Not as long as I am black," said Simple."You look at everything, I regret to say, in terms of black and white.""So does the Law," said Simple.

Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The destinies of the two races, in this country, are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.

Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

A truly civilized society has no use of law and government, it's only an uncivilized society that needs them.

Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.