Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie Hoffman
The true danger is
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. Edmund Burke
Expedience
Our Founding Fathers, faced
Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake. Barack Obama
It is the curse
It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their own standards and hesitate to give voice to their deeper convictions, submitting supinely to estimates and characterizations of themselves as handed down by a not unprejudiced dominant majority. Anna Julia Cooper