Quotes About Justice

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Violence, poverty and health disparities have many inputs.

You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane.

But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

If someone has it inside them to commit an act, then that act would be committed anyway. It's very easy for someone to place the blame on something other than the person who committed the act. It's people looking for scapegoats, you know?

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who had entered without inspection.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

I'm always inspired by people who choose to do what is right, not what is easy.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

We try to instill a sense of fair play, a sense of honesty.

If I were able to do something unilaterally, I would probably institute a new federal rule that said all cases worth less than $500,000 would be tried without any discovery.

There is no more important institution in our country than the Department of Justice.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

It is time to raze the institutional foundations of racism and segregation within politics, law enforcement and society at large.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system.

I used to say, 'We've always had integration in the South... we just want it now in the daytime.