Quotes About Justice

Let Righteousness Cover the Earth, Like the Water Covers The Sea.

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.

Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.

People who go to court to find justice are usually looking in the wrong place.

What can be painted can be punished.

Given that animals are nothing more than mere tools for the production of capital, the only way to abolish their exploitation is to challenge their status as properties and commodities.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

Freedom comes to those who fight but not to those who cry, because the you cry is the more your people continue to die, so rise and defend your right - Bobi Wine

one cannot even kill a cat, let alone a person, with impunity, nor can one with impunity expel a person, let alone drive away a cat, without consequences.

taxpayers pay nearly $150 billion annually for criminal justice costs—half again as much per capita as Canadians—about $2,000 for every family of four.29 Adding costs of security, insurance, loss, damage, or being a victim brings the numbers close to $500 billion—about 7 percent of the U.S. gross national product.

In California, one of the twenty states with the "three-strikes-you're-in-for-life" laws, 57 percent of inmates serving life sentences have been imprisoned for nonviolent offenses.

This was a fight not just for the right of access but for the right of recreation, of leisure, no matter what your skin color. Many activists saw pools and beaches as the ultimate symbols of that freedom. In the mingling of bodies, in the act of sharing the same water with others, you can read volumes.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

But the one thing we can all agree -- all faiths, all ideologies -- is that God is with the vulnerable and poor. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend toward justice. It has to be bent, and this requires sheer force of will. It demands our sharpest focus and most concentrated effort. History does not move in a straight line; it has to be dragged, kicking and screaming, all the way down the line.

Well, while I hope God is with those of us who live such comfortable lives, I know God is with the poorest and most vulnerable.

Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice; it makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties; it doubts our concern, and it questions our commitment. Six and a half thousand Africans are still dying every day of preventable, treatable disease, for lack of drugs we can buy at any drug store. This is not about charity: This is about Justice and Equality.

Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.