Quotes About Justice

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore.

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.'

Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.

How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.

If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.

Everybody wants to protect their own tribe, whether they are right or wrong.

If we don't center the voices of marginalized people, we're doing the wrong work.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.